Kerry: Internet 'Needs Rules to Be Able to Flourish and Work Properly' (Calls for UN regulation)

Weekly Standard ^ | May 18, 2015 | Daniel Halper

[Zakeet]

Complete Headline: Kerry: Internet 'Needs Rules to Be Able to Flourish and Work Properly' - Calls for more international Internet laws.

In a speech today in South Korea, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Internet "needs rules to be able to flourish and work properly." This, according to Kerry, is necessary even for "a technology founded on freedom."

Speaking on behalf of the Obama administration, Kerry said that Internet policy is "a key component of our foreign policy."

Kerry made his remarks in the context of talking about how international law is applicable to the Internet.

[Zakeet]

We need to put the U.N. in charge of regulating the Internet in order to keep it free and build trust ...

[Lazamataz]

The FCC has not even quite seized control and they are ALREADY planning to destroy and squash free speech.

[Red Badger]

Seems like it’s been doing okay for the last 30 years or so all by itself!.................

[Birdsbane]

Commie!

[BenLurkin]

How very....Orwellian of him.

[Steely Tom]

What about the Secretary of State, Mr. Kerry? Are any rules needed about the Secretary being able to run all her official e-mails through a server in her basement?

[KC_Lion]

Don't Let THIS Happen to F.R.!

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[SMARTY]

Is EVERYONE in DC drunk on power?

[BenLurkin]

When when the Statists say “work properly” — they mean work for the interests of the State.

[JohnBrowdie]

They will do for the Web what they did for the US mail

[lowbridge]

Bump

[5thGenTexan]

Flourish?!?! It is already pretty much ubiquitous.

[Old Sarge]

Short answer: You bet.

They have been working towards this for four generations, and they finally achieved critical mass: they have the resources of a nation-state at their fingertips, and an entire country to destroy.

[ColdOne]

Yep.....the plan all along.

[from occupied ga]

Everyone knows that the more burdensome regulations you have on an activity the more free and easy to use it is < /sarcasm>

[glennaro]

Not to worry ... Mitch McConnell and John Boehner will shout out and stop this big-government takeover immediately (though don’t hold your breath!)

[WayneS]

I'm sure all the kiddie porn purveyors and human trafficking practitioners are 100% in favor of putting the UN in charge of the internet.

[Covenantor]

"These will fit perfectly in my Speedos at the Vineyard, front and back."

[Covenantor]

"These will fit perfectly in my Speedos at the Vineyard, front and back."

[fish hawk]

it is beyond my thinking why liberal Democrats (which are the same thing) insist on giving American Freedom away to a crooked biased inept organization. the only thing I can think of is the One World thing, setting the world up for “the one” no not Obama, I mean THE ONE.