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There’s A Huge Plan In The Works To Give The UN Control Of The Internet

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 8:14
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Rob Lever, Agence France Presse

It is expected to be the mother of all cyber diplomatic battles.

When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expected to be intense over proposals to rewrite global telecom rules to effectively give the United Nations control over the Internet.

Russia, China and other countries back a move to place the Internet under the authority of the International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency that sets technical standards for global phone calls.

U.S. officials say placing the Internet under U.N. control would undermine the freewheeling nature of cyberspace, which promotes open commerce and free expression, and could give a green light for some countries to crack down on dissidents.

Observers say a number of authoritarian states will back the move, and that the major Western nations will oppose it, meaning the developing world could make a difference.

“The most likely outcome is a tie, and if that happens there won’t be any dramatic changes, although that could change if the developing countries make a big push,” said James Lewis, director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“But there is a lot of discontent with how the Internet is governed and the US will have to deal with that at some point.”

 

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  • Quote:There’s A Huge Plan In The Works To Give The UN Control Of The Internet!
    It must be a joke! The UN couldn’t organize a piss up in a brewery

  • Well at least John Rolls is anti-UN.

    quote:
    “The Internet has grown precisely because it has not been micro-managed or owned by any government or multinational organization,” Kramer told a recent forum.
    unquote.

    Sounds wonderful.

    Too bad entities like google and youtube have sucked the main crowds.

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