“The European proposal, offered for debate at a December meeting of a U.N. agency called the International Telecommunication Union...”
Thanks for posting. Very interesting.
E.U., U.N., I.T.U., etc., etc. Hallmarks of UNaccountable bureaucracies and UNaccountable bureaucrats (socialists) working in tandem with socialists and bureaucracies in the U.S.A. to FORCE/TAX you to pay for their schemes.
Stop the Socialists! DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. Pick some...any 100-1000 would be a good start.
“Socialism Is Legal Plunder” - Bastiat 1801-1850
“Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.” - Bastiat 1801-1850
More evidence of the damage they have done...
DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic.
Need names? Here are the obvious 75 of 435 house members. Almost 20% of the house (senate? not counted) and a “new party” (socialist) president can do a lot of damage to the republic. There are many, many others who are much more subtle.
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71§iontree=2,71
Socialism/totalitarianism...a.k.a. plunder/enslavement/death.
live - free - republic
These evil socialist UN cretins want to tax and censor the Internet. By what right?
The UN is a criminal organization. This december these UN marxists will try to takeover the internet.And of course China is the main one pushing for this. China and the UN must be stopped. Maybe someone can post this article?:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57444629-83/u.n-takeover-of-the-internet-must-be-stopped-u.s-warns/
U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns
A U.N. summit later this year in Dubai could lead to a new international regime of censorship, taxes, and surveillance, warn Democrats, Republicans, the Internet Society, and father of the Internet Vint Cerf.
Democratic and Republican government officials warned this morning that a United Nations summit in December will lead to a virtual takeover of the Internet if proposals from China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are adopted.
“These are terrible ideas,” Rep. Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican, said during a U.S. House of Representatives hearing. They could allow “governments to monitor and restrict content or impose economic costs upon international data flows,” added Ambassador Philip Verveer, a deputy assistant secretary of state.
Robert McDowell, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, elaborated by saying proposals foreign governments have pitched to him personally would “use international mandates to charge certain Web destinations on a ‘per-click’ basis to fund the build-out of broadband infrastructure across the globe.”
I have one thing to say to the UN - KMA
One way to fight back would be for the content providers to target one of the countries pushing this idea and cut off all services. Focus on one target for maximum effect to change hearts and minds or leave them, in effect, in the dark.
Once they have a sliver of taxing authority, they are the de facto world government.
Once they have a sliver they will eventually take the whole pie.
Boy, the graft must be running short in the UN with the way the kleptocrats keep trying come up with new revenue generation schemes.
Who givesd a frack about third worlders on the internet? I'd tell them to stuff their 'tax' where the sundon't shine.
We could block all internet traffic at the border, and the vast majority of Americans wouldn't be affected at all. The rest of the world wouldn't be able to say the same. While I'd personally miss some British news sources, I'd learn to live with it.
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