[RightWhale]

Tyrants unite!

[taxed2death]

"Cuba, Iran and African governments lashed out at the U.S. government this week, charging that the Internet permits too much free speech............"

"Too much free speech"?

What the he!! does THAT mean?

[July 4th]

"Fidel Castro, the unflinching promoter of the use of new technologies"

Wow. They smoke some good stuff in Cuba.

[Element187]

damn that free speech ... how can i plan to be a brutal, oppressive and murderous dictactor if i have things like the internet hanging around, putting silly ideas like freedom in the minds of the masses i hope to control... how dare the USA get in the way of my ambitions.

[Syberyenta]

My mother used to say "You can tell you're doing something right if you're hated by the right people."

[BatGuano]

These people, Cuba, Iran and "African nations" just don't get it do they. The battle for the Internet has begun and we will probably have the usual suspects in congress fighting against us.

[Enchante]

"The proceeds have not been equally shared by developing and developed countries," said Sudan President Omar Ahmad al-Bashir. "The digital divide is growing between the rich and the poor countries.""

I just love how all the worst tyrants rise out of their backward, despotic 3rd World cesspools to whine about things they have not and could not contribute to..... Sudan, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Iran, etc..... some of the most dismal and depraved dictatorships on earth, total parasites on the west and especially the USA..... they contribute nothing to the Internet or WorldWideWeb but of course want to control all.....

[TheOracleAtLilac]

Cuba, Iran_^continue to lash out at Internet freedom

[WmCraven_Wk]

Too often, the Internet is used for the "propagation of falsehoods," said Mohammad Soleymani, Iran's minister of communication and information technology.

"Soleymani called for the elimination of the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)--which approves new top-level domain names--in favor of United Nations control.

"Changing the current Internet governance to a participatory, legitimate and accountable system under an international authority is imperative," he said. "

What is a polite way to tell this guy to go sc**w himself?

[injin]

the rest of the world should pull the plug on places like this

[Steve0113]

Too often, the Internet is used for the "propagation of falsehoods," said Mohammad Soleymani, Iran's minister of communication and information technology.

What's the matter - he doesn't like competition?

[shield]

Can't those tyrants control it in their own country? Doesn't China control theirs?

[Fred911]

I wonder if Mugabe will do as well with the internet as he did with the farms that he took from the white farmers in Zimbabwe?

[Recovering Hermit]

Cuba, Iran and African governments lashed out at the U.S. government this week, charging that the Internet permits too much free speech and that the way it is managed must be reformed immediately.

Here's a pretty simple solution:

[Redbob]

Good.

Having Castro and Mugabe as spokesmen for the opposition sorta puts them in perspective, doesn't it?

Those two are too stupid to cloak their real intentions - putting an end to free speech.
They need to take lessons from Messrs. McCain and Fiengold.

[Dashing Dasher]

Cuba, Iran and African governments lashed out at the U.S. government this week, charging that the Internet permits too much free speech and that the way it is managed must be reformed immediately.

Why does this strike me as hilarious!!!

TOO MUCH FREE SPEECH!!!

LOL!!!

And one tyrant said to the other, "The Americans are too happy! They laugh too much and say what they want. There is too much freedom."

[sagar]

Bush should tell them to shove their concerns up their collective @$$3$

[M. Espinola]

The Internet will play a key part in bringing down the brutal dictatorships of both Cuba & Iran.

[Billthedrill]

This would be comic if it weren't that the EU came out in favor of it.

What these birds had in mind was nothing more than the same theft to which they've grown accustomed in their own countries. The scam supposedly would have started with replacing ICANN with a UN-related body for distributing IP addresses. It would have gone from there to dividing the address pool among developing countries and forcing the ones who needed addresses to pay just as the Kyoto agreement was structured with respect to emissions. From there an international internet tax would have been easy to institute, first for addresses and then for the passage of content, and so would monitoring and censorship of that content. Anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration may look at the people who are bleating here: Sudan, Cuba, Iran, China, Zimbabwe. To whose numbers we may add the European Union. That isn't a compliment.

[VeniVidiVici]

Cuba, Zimbabwe and Iran walk into a bar ...