[demlosers]

Houlin Zhao, director of the ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, said last year. Zhao, a former government official in China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, has been in his current job since 1999.

So the ChiComs are trying to subvert the Internet and extend their censorship policies through the UN.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yeah, I'm going to pay any attention when a ChiCom speaks.....

[Calpernia]

>>> So the ChiComs are trying to subvert the Internet and extend their censorship policies through the UN.

That is one of the reasons they tried to buy Global Crossings.

[af_vet_rr]

So the ChiComs are trying to subvert the Internet and extend their censorship policies through the UN.

Several Middle Eastern countries have been behind this as well. They don't care for "western" content.

Zhao does a very good job of spinning the conversation away from any hard questions, or anything that is going to set off obvious alarms. Even his comments on privacy being a politically sensitive issue, he basically said nothing. Typical politician, not revealing what their true intent is, but making you think they did.

I don't have a problem with the way the internet is now (other than speed, but that's a provider issue), you probably don't, as many others here don't.

The people who seem to have the most problems with how the internet is laid out, how various needs are met, etc., seem to all be from countries that don't have free citizens.

[maine-iac7]

So the ChiComs are trying to subvert the Internet and extend their censorship policies through the UN.

This is not "news" - They have working towards this for years....we ignore it to our peril