...wasn't the self-portrait you posted on your profile page.
Posted on 02/22/2005 2:15:56 AM PST by ViLaLuz
Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope to set up a global system where cyberspace would be under the control of the United Nations.
The committee, which was set up in December 2003, is laying the groundwork for the U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society where a final decision on the control of the Net will be determined, stated a Reuters report. The summit will take place in Tunis in November.
The panel is considering such problems as cyber-crime and e-mail spam.
ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, currently is the most recognizable Internet governing body, but developing countries want a U.N. agency, such as the International Telecommunication Union, to have control over domain names and other issues.
"There is an issue that is out there and that needs to be resolved," Nitin Desai, chairman of the panel and special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told Reuters.
Incorporated in 1998, ICANN oversees management of the Internet's addressing system, which matches numerical addresses to website addresses. Critics claim ICANN is subject to U.S. political influence.
According to the report, developing countries see the International Telecommunication Union, a 138-year-old trade body that among other things established country code rules for international telephone calls, as better able to deal with Internet governance.
At the first World Summit on the Information Society in 2003, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called for international rules to govern the Net.
"The information society offers new opportunities, but like all new technological revolutions it also brings uncertainty," Raffarin said. "It calls on us to establish international rules, which citizens can rely on."
At the time, China was leading efforts to globalize Internet control. Beijing allows its own citizens online access, but only with government surveillance. China was joined in its efforts by representatives of Syria, Egypt, Vietnam and South Africa.
Yep. We'll end up knee-deep in empty brass, either literally or figuratively.
Only after they pry my keyboard from my cold, dead fingers...and after I have emptied every bullet possible into the bodies of those wearing the blue helmets.
Who is the pinhead p.r. prick who came up with this stupid idea?
I am almost to the point where I think we should storm the U.N. with torches and pitchforks. Do these people think they are the world government ?
We need to make some serious changes to that organization.
Says it all, doesn't it?
Free Republic would be shut down in a heartbeat."
To be shortly followed by a midnight knock on the doors of all Freepers. JBT Alert!
...wasn't the self-portrait you posted on your profile page.
Tomorrow?
I'll pencil it in.
Say where and when; I'm really ready for this one. I got your back, CM.
This should get real interesting, real soon. There's no way the corrupt, disgraced UN can do anything we don't want them to do. We have all the guns.
Gee, what if the UN imposes internet resolutions on me and I violate them. Are they gonna send big bad George Bush after me?
ROFL,...Thanks. If only that herbal stuff really worked. If only I had a possible reason,hope or dream to be able to use it.
If I read it right, the UN is saying they want to take over the issuance of Domain Names. That would be SO EASY to bypass. All you need is one sympathetic American willing to set up a DNS Server configured with the IP Addresses/Domain Names of the now forbidden sites. The IP Address of that DNS Server could then be added to the Network Configuration on the home computer of anyone who wanted to visit those sites. Even without such a server, you could still access any site you wanted by its IP Address:
http://209.157.64.201/
...works just as well.
Gracias, es la verdad.
even if we could keep the united nations out of it, eventually control would either go to china or india by virtue of their populations.
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