Posted on 10/17/2005 8:04:36 AM PDT by Monty610
D.C. Watson examines the UN's attempts to take over the Internet:
While the United States houses, and provides much of the funding for the United Nations' annual budget, that just doesn't seem to be enough.
The U.N., with many of its own problems, such as astonishing corruption, is now being touted by the European Union as a candidate to control the Internet. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19846
From the column:
Viviane Reding, European IT commissioner, says that if a multilateral approach cannot be agreed, countries such as China, Russia, Brazil and some Arab states could start operating their own versions of the internet and the ubiquity that has made it such a success will disappear. Well then, why don't these countries go right ahead and build their own and see how they do? And, you'll never guess who else likes the idea of the U.S. giving up control of the net:
The EU plan was applauded by states such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, leading the former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt to express misgivings on his weblog: "It seems as if the European position has been hijacked by officials that have been driven by interests that should not be ours." So let's see if we understand this. The United States created, funded, developed, and marketed the Internet, yet were "hijacking" it? Is there no end to the asinine statements these creatures will make? If that's the case, then I guess I hijacked my own lawnmower yesterday. I cut the grass with it and wouldn't let anyone else push it. The safety of the American people comes first. And since some of these bottom feeders have websites they use to recruit Muslim terrorists and possibly do some illegal Internet banking money transfers from Islamic charities, the United States needs to have its hands on the controls. What would these countries do if they had the control? Would they attempt to rid the web of anything that is offensive to Muslims? That in itself would likely empty out the entire Internet. Would they attempt to cover up all of their future wrongdoings? Or would they work to monitor and then limit everyone's freedom of speech, for example, "Islamophobic" speech? Does anyone remember U.N. Secretary Kofi Annan's speech confronting "Islamophobia"? http://www.amperspective.com/html/annan_speech_text.html Confronting "Islamophobia"? That's comparable to confronting an iceberg floating in the lake of fire. This might be a good time to contact all State Representatives and Senators to let them know that handing over control of the Internet to that waste of space in New York they call the United Nations would be the dumbest thing they could do, and we all know how handy they are when it comes to doing dumb things. If these other countries want control of an Internet, they should go ahead and develop their own. In a world where wild-eyed Muslims are busy raping babies and swinging machetes at innocent people in Sudan, sawing off heads in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, developing nuclear weapons in Iran, sending foreign fighters into Iraq from Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia to fight Coalition forces, wearing suits, ties, and kufis in Washington, hiding behind the Qur'an as they attempt to guilt-trip Americans into coddling Islam, strapping bombs to themselves in Gaza, fighting for the implementation of Islamic law in Canada, making threats to cartoonists in Denmark, shooting and slicing up filmmakers in Holland, attacking schoolchildren in Russia, bombing subways in London, bombing trains in Madrid, flying planes into buildings, bombing nightclubs in Bali, preaching hate in mosques, threatening to attack the Vatican in Italy, and attempting to blackmail the world with oil, the Internet should never, ever be handed over to a corrupt organization that panders to Islam as does the United Nations.
Yeah...but who's going to find your DNS servers when the U.N.-controlled root servers de-list your primary, secondary and tertiary DNS servers? That effectively knocks every system for which you serve records off the 'net...unless, of course, all of your viewers know your IP address. And even then, anyone with control of major hubs could just as effectively blackhole those ranges. It's trivial to do.
I'm sorry, but we really should rewind here to establish your level of expertise on this subject. What is your background in computer networking? What experience do you have in working with the Internet? And have you ever handled global, net-based enterprise architecture?
That's absurd. You can't just do that without ICANN approval.
Think I am wrong? Ask the U.S. government if it can be done or not. ;-)
Cheers,
CSG
Very probable when Hillary(and Bubba) land back in the White House(2008).. with a phalanx of democrats and RINOs to back them up.. the farm then will be sold for condos.. The goose that lays the egg will be goosed for eggs, and lady liberty may get goosed also..
Theres a million stories in the big city Washington D.C. and most end with someone getting goosed.. The sheeple seem to like it though.. but thats another story comnpletly..
IPv6 has a lot more useful features than just address space, but, yes, there's a lot of wasted space in the current IP handling. Of course, NAT (which was a hack for the limit on IPv4 addresses, and causes problems of its own) would be completely unneccessary with IPv6. We'd have a lot left over even if half of the space was wasted, the Earth's population quadrupled and each person was using 50,000 addresses.
He absolutely could do it. However, www.google.individualrightsinnjisthecoolest would resolve only for those who use his DNS servers, which means nobody.
So amended. I shot from the hip on that one. He could do everything up to having the (ridiculously long suffix) work at all.
I don't always agree with ICANN; hell, I'm one of their biggest critics. But their work does manage to provide a certain amount of order in this wonderful chaos.
Cheers,
CSG
Darth Sidious : One more, the sh*t will rule the internet! And we shall have...peace.
Until the globalists shut down the landlines.
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