Plan for UN to run internet 'will be shelved' (but now on international agenda)

Financial Times ^ | 11/10/03 | ft

[anniegetyourgun]

LOL!

[znix]

They want it so they can "tax" it. Think oil-for-food.

[commish]

What do these yahoos want ..a global civil war, because that is what will happen.

[So Cal Rocket]

Think oil-for-food.

URL-for-food.

[Robert A Cook PE]

So the Internet - bought and startup-funded STRICTLY by US dollars as a DOD initiative, and strongest point-of-view AGAINST the international socialist control, is going to be targetted (by the democrats! as soon as they get in power!) to UN thought police?

Sure, now some of the computer "connecting sites" are overseas - but this is a US-funded and inspired tool.

[Holly_P]

hate speech and child pornography

and by all means let the Phillipines be in charge of cleaning up kiddy porn>>>The child prostitute capital of the world.

[Libertina]

Excuse me, they want to run what? No way, at no time!

[Holly_P]

let the Phillipines be in charge<p. Or is it Thailand? Oh well you know what I mean.

[Libertina]

Don't forget Al Gore helped too ;)

[Leatherneck_MT]

The minute the UN starts running the Internet is the day my computer and all outside communications devices goes in the shitcan.

[znix]

URL-for-food.

:)

[montomike]

The UN can't even run to the bathroom without screwing up.

They gave us Rwanda, they gave us the Congo, they gave us Liberia...and they want to run the internet.

In the immortal words of Mr. Traficant...

BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY!

[Indy Pendance]

hahahahaha! Right, maybe Blixie boy could head it up.

[znix]

They'll want our GPS system next

[KantianBurke]

But not before stocking up on some of these puppies...

[numberonepal]

More of the "You got it and we want it" attitude. This is one fight we can't lose. The US dreamed it up, built it, and runs it. What are they gonna do, force us to turn over our server nodes to their control.

This issue is very very important to US business, and I believe it will never happen, but the fight is gonna be a tough one.

[Paladin2]

I agree. I'll start watching TV (ugh!)again
before I'll have my packets distributed by the UN
(It's bad enough that our gov't paws though the traffic).

[Principled]

URL-for-food.

Yo owe me a keyboard!

[Leatherneck_MT]

Already stocked :)