USA to UN: "You can kiss our royal American asses. Thank you very much for listening."
Posted on 11/16/2005 8:21:58 PM PST by SmithL
TUNIS, Tunisia -- Despite a late-night agreement averting a global showdown over continued U.S. control of the Internet's addressing system, many delegates to a U.N. technology summit did not believe the Americans emerged victorious.
Representatives of a number of countries remained adamant that U.S. control must be tempered if the Internet is to fully reach its potential. And even traditional allies of Washington considered it to have opened the door to the possibility of more shared governance.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe spoke for the more radical opposition to U.S. control, saying Washington and its allies cannot continue to "insist on being world policemen on the management of the Internet."
"Why should our diverse world be beholden to an American company?," he told more than 10,000 government, business and other delegates as the three-day U.N. World Summit on the Information Society opened Wednesday.
A quasi-independent group, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, manages the worldwide network's main addressing computers on the U.S. government's behalf.
Mugabe's remarks signaled that, despite the U.S. success in winning over a broad group of nations including the European Union bloc, underlying complaints about American hegemony in Internet control still linger.
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"President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe spoke for the more radical opposition to U.S. control"
it is amazing that this chimp even knows what the Internet is!
US citizens urge UN crybabies: Take a flying freak at a rolling donut!
No way we should do this? It really is for the children.
Yeah, really ("lucky we share the Internet)....How about we announce....The US has decided to SHARE the INTERNET WITH ONLY Freedom Loving countries!!!
I've got something that I'd like to urge those "nations" to do:
G_ F_CK TH_MS_LV_S
Would they like to buy a vowel?
This is precisely why the UN needs to be eliminated, it gives dictator-thug-scum like Mugabe a forum to blather insipidly in front of the world as these corrupt jerks actively work against everything American.
First, to hell with them.
Second, who supposedly controls ".com" and HOW?
"Why should our diverse world be beholden to an American company?,"
SWAG, Because Zimbabwe's elite is still bushmen whose only net access is to entrap prey?
Let's play Diplospeak-
The Republic of Zimbabwe
1608 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20009
Telephone: (202) 332-7100
Fax: (202) 483-9326
E-mail: zimemb@erols.com
URL: http://www.zimembassy-usa.org/
The Embassy of Zimbabwe is located on New Hampshire Avenue.
I will cede my middle digit on each finger to the United Nations. Cede THIS!!!!!
I think Zimbabwe should be indulged and allowed to manage their own Internet with their own addresses. I could personally give a rat's rear end whether I could get to a site in Zimbabwe anyway. Let all the tin-pot dictators form their own tin-pot-net, and they can be the tin-pot managers of it. No loss at all. We'll keep & manage our own Internet, thank-you-very-much. I think we can get along just fine without Zimbabwe's contribution and computing resources.
"Why should our diverse world be beholden to an American company?," he told more than 10,000 government, business and other delegates as the three-day U.N. World Summit on the Information Society opened Wednesday.
Because the US built the Net Mugabe - you're just mad because you cannot apply your standard, 'Just Take It' policy.
See my tag line.
We're supposed to care or listen to what Mugabe has to say? I can't post what I'm thinking or I'd be banned for life.
HANDS OFF THE INTERNET, UN!
All the U.N. needs to do is to create their own internet. The can call "The Third-World Wide Web" or 3rdwww for short.
I live in New Jersey and I got Mugabe's internet RIGHT HERE...!
A better address for email to the embassy of the Zimbabwean entity (Occupied Rhodesia)-
info@zimbabwe-embassy.us
I found this a curious remark. What exactly did Clinton agree to? Another Carter-esque giveaway?
USA to UN: "You can kiss our royal American asses. Thank you very much for listening."
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