Posted: 2/22/2005 2:51:37 PM EDT
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U.N. to control use of Internet? Developing countries want global body to govern cyberspace WND Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope to set up a global system where cyberspace would be under the control of the United Nations. The committee, which was set up in December 2003, is laying the groundwork for the U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society where a final decision on the control of the Net will be determined, stated a Reuters report. The summit will take place in Tunis in November. The panel is considering such problems as cyber-crime and e-mail spam. ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, currently is the most recognizable Internet governing body, but developing countries want a U.N. agency, such as the International Telecommunication Union, to have control over domain names and other issues. "There is an issue that is out there and that needs to be resolved," Nitin Desai, chairman of the panel and special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told Reuters. Incorporated in 1998, ICANN oversees management of the Internet's addressing system, which matches numerical addresses to website addresses. Critics claim ICANN is subject to U.S. political influence. According to the report, developing countries see the International Telecommunication Union, a 138-year-old trade body that among other things established country code rules for international telephone calls, as better able to deal with Internet governance. At the first World Summit on the Information Society in 2003, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called for international rules to govern the Net. "The information society offers new opportunities, but like all new technological revolutions it also brings uncertainty," Raffarin said. "It calls on us to establish international rules, which citizens can rely on." At the time, China was leading efforts to globalize Internet control. Beijing allows its own citizens online access, but only with government surveillance. China was joined in its efforts by representatives of Syria, Egypt, Vietnam and South Africa. |
| surprise surprise. The UN needs to do something to validate itself, and it truly seems to see itself as evolving into the center of world government. In trying a grab for control of the internet, they clearly want to control what we see and participate in. I don't see it going very far. After all, China is the most fanatical about trying to prevent their citizens from accessing certain kinds of information, yet it still gets through. |
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So, let's see. - US invents Internet. - Nigeria invents super duper scam. - Pakistani hackers try to screw with my stuff all the time. - Asian hackers try to screw with my stuff. - Other turd world countries send me spam every day And the UN wants to fix this? I have a fix. A big ass firewall on the Internet connection to the rest of the world. Set to "Outside ANY->BLOCK". Let them run their own shitty Internet. |
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50-60 years of isolationism sound good to anyone else? They haven't had much luck undermining the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution, I doubt they will do any better with the 1st. Fucking UN.....what a waste of money, time, effort. |
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"Critics claim ICANN is subject to U.S. political influence. " My tax, dollars, my internet. As far as I am concerned, the Internet is owned by the American people and should not subject to foreign control. If the Euro-surrender monkeys or the Chicoms want to step up on us, fine. We'll just cut them off. Imagine a China without the Internet to sell their cheap trinkets by the millions and get them through warehouse distrubution..... Fuck 'em all. Dave |
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So I guess Kofi has another son I didn't know about. I never thought of this before, but I bet the toplogy of the UN HQ systems are quite interesting, what with the common interest in worldwide peace and trust among nations being what it is. I mean surely China isn't trying to hack the South Korea delegation's LAN , and with international cooperation being what it is, a single external firewall is about all that's needed......  And with a netops |
That's quite a club.  Fuck the UN! |
