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Re: All Your Internet Are Belong To UN [message #163460 is a reply to message #163403] Sat, 16 July 2005 12:05 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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THE STORY:
Some countries want the UN to control the Internet because they think the UN can get rid of spam somehow. Let's face it, if the US can't police the Internet,

who can? They think the US has been running the show for too long (ICANN was birthed by the US) and now they want change. The four countries mentioned in it

were Syria, Brazil, China, and Ghana (in the article I read). They want a new UN organization (or the Internation Telecommunications Union) to control the

critical parts of the Internet, and control who makes new TLDs, assigning numeric Internet addresses, and operating the root servers. They also want it to

handle Internet surveilance, consumer protection, and even taxing domain names for international access. Those proclamations served to flush out the Bush

administration, which recently announced that it will not hand over control of Internet domain names and addresses to anyone else. There is also a second

option, which means Brazil and China would make their own Internet, and two computers could find different websites at the same address.


No. Seriously. No.
 
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