[grundle]

This is just dumb. The old phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a cliche, but true. The U.N. has a really bad idea here. This is really a political agenda, not a technological one. If China or whoever doesn't like how the internet is being run, then they can create their own internet and run it however they want. I think what the U.N. really objects to is the free flow, unregulated, uncensored access to information that people currently have on the internet. I don't see how the U.N. could make the internet any better. But I do see how they could ruin it with their political agenda.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

GET US OUT OF UN
GET UN OUT OF US

Democracy is the rule of fools by fools. Hence socialism.

[miele man]

Al Gore just needs to put his pink hands upon his hips, lean slightly forward from the waist and then stomp his left foot, all the while shouting to the UN pinheads; "just stop it, guys".

"There, that'll fix it".


Grundle, you are right, "It ain't broke" but if the UN gets a hold on it, it'll be screwed up big time and in short order and I'm sure with a hefty user tax tacked on it.

[wildbill]

The only way they can take our Cisco servers is from our cold dead hands!

[wildbill]

By the way, I was not surprised to see "no selfcontrol" amongst all those many keywords.

[joesnuffy]

Only communists believe that the person who invented, built,worked the bugs out, marketed...added all his labor to
and object,a process, or and idea doesnt own it..

And that private ownership (and control) of property is immoral

[fallujah-nuker]

I believe the US government actually created the internet as DARPAnet (DOD, not Al Gore).

[DustyMoment]

UN Panel: No Single Nation Should Control Internet Addresses

And, especially not a group of moronic, demented, totalitarian socialists such as those comprising the Useless Nations Debate Club.

[RightWhale]

China even threatened a few years ago to split the Internet in two and set up its own naming system for Chinese.

They might just as well make the split official. It is characteristic of China to wall themselves off.

[Sprite518]

BINGO

[mcar]

Who gave The Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) power to decide anything about the Internet? This has been going on for several years now with China leading the way, (the country which censors what its own citizens access on the internet) along with the support of Syria, Egypt, Vietnam, and South Africa, all defenders of human rights.

…wanted to wrest control from ICANN and place it with an intergovernmental group, possibly under the United Nations.

America did well; they invented and suck the cost into it, but now its time for wrest control

Typical of the Power-grabbing U.N.

[sitetest]

"The United States stated two weeks ago that it intended to maintain control over the computers that serve as the Internet's principal traffic cops."

Good.