Posted on 11/14/2007 8:25:31 AM PST by processing please hold
UN beachside conferencing goes way beyond plans for a December blowout on Bali, and the UN agenda goes way beyond taxing us in the name of controlling the weather. Live, right now, the UN is continuing its grab to control the internet, with a Nov. 12-15 conference in Rio de Janeiro (beach facilities shown in accompanying photo).
Big on the agenda is the UN-based campaign to take away control of the internet from the U.S. The aim, now that U.S. freedoms and resulting creativity (not Al Gore, his own claims notwithstanding) have brought mankind this marvelous gift of the internet, is to confiscate management of the World Wide Web and turn it over to the same grand conclave of UN potentates whose members include the web-censoring likes of dissident-jailing China, monk-murdering Burma, terrorist-sponsoring bomb-making Iran, and 2008 members-elect of the Security Council, Libya and Vietnam.
This current pow-wow in Brazil is the work of the UN-based Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which — with a secretariat now entrenched in an office at the UN’s palatial (BMW-rich) complex in Geneva — has been following up on the UN’s second World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). That internet summit, as you might recall, was held in November, 2005 in internet-censoring Tunisia — initial sponsor in 1998 of this UN bid to cash in on the web.
The current Rio proceedings, bankrolled by yet another of those murky special UN extra-budgetary trust funds, boasting more than 1,000 participants, and complete with a UN media team, are being broadcast live at this link. I tuned in Sunday afternoon long enough to hear one of the speakers, Mr. Fernandez Gonzalez, declaring — a familiar theme at UN conclaves — that the market model of development is a “disaster,” that what’s needed is an internet managed under the UN tent as yet another global redistribution scheme, etc etc etc. That would be the same despot-packed, unreformed, opaque and unaccountable UN that won’t disclose details of its own getting and spending, and has failed abysmally to reform its own dysfunctional and unjust internal “justice” system, while operating across borders, outside any normal system of law.
Coming up next on the UN IGF internet-grab agenda, complete with per diems for the UN support staff and power plays for the despotic governments of the planet: a 2008 meeting in India, 2009 in Egypt… and beyond. Enjoy the freedom of the internet while we’ve still got it.
BBL
The UN will never be able to manage the internet - little technical savvy and way too many illiterate employees -
relax it will never happen...
The U.S. should have ratained the management of the internet. To tell the truth, I’m not precisely clear where we stand in this process. It is vitally important that our President grasp how important this is, and assert U.S. control in the face of U.N. agression to steal our property rights.
I don’t necessarily disagree with international input at some point in the process, but we should give firm guidance as to what direction the internet will take, and what organization will tap it for profit.
Letting the U.N. achieve an autonomous income stream is vitally unacceptable.
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Not to worry. If the UN actually tries to implement any of these stupid proposals, pimply-faced teenagers operating out of their parents' basements will do just that. And probably very quickly. The UN would immediately become the number one target of the invisible network of high-caliber kiddie hackers, whose competitive instincts would drive them to play night and day in hopes of being the first to do the trick.
Frankly, given the general incompetence of the UN, I suspect this phase of the game (cutting off the UN's internet access) might be over in a few hours, leaving the kids time to take a cursory whack at their homework and get a good night's sleep before heading off to catch the school bus in the morning. Subsequent phases -- like wiping out the data on the UN's servers, and setting up reliable workarounds to prevent other meddlesome organizations from taxing or censoring the internet -- might take as long as a couple of weeks. We should keep a cyber gold medal handy in case one of the kiddies manages to host some workarounds on the UN's own systems.
Exactly. See my post at #8.
The UN will never be able to manage the internet -
As long as global communication is regulated and controlled, the efficiency does not matter.
As long as dissidents cannot get together, technical savvy is not very important.
As long as you don’t know that the next village over has more water than you, peace will reign over Earth.
That would be an excellent prescription against the power grabbing un.
I'm afraid I have to agree with you on that. In the not too distant future.
The only way to rid ourselves of that money sucking parasitic worthless toothless despotic tool of the left and globalist is to get us out of it and kick them off our soil. I don't see our 'leaders' doing that however.
Take away their feeling of puissant. Without us, they're done for.
relax it will never happen...
I wish I were as confident of that as you appear to be. Never underestimate their thirst for control, power and money.
Why? It isn't their baby, they didn't create it.
Letting the U.N. achieve an autonomous income stream is vitally unacceptable.
To control and direct the flow of information as well.
That incompetence garnered them billions in the OFF program.
DITTO!!!!!!
You’re spot on with all of those. I agree.
Yes, but that’s very low-tech competence, and was also facilitated by nations whose governments harbor a very high level of both intellectual and technical competence. I think certain individual national governments are far more likely to put serious dents in internet freedom than the UN. I think they could all make more money off the project that way, and by small alliances between a few nations, than by participating in some UN-directed plan. With OFF, they needed the UN for access and cover. Not clear that the same would be true for internet meddling.
The UN will take our 13 DNS Servers over our cold dead bodies!
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