U.N. controlled Internet?
This is a really -stupid- -fuckwitted- typical idea from the ever so effective and useful United Nations... ( from the
Financial Times )
bq. Poorer nations such as Brazil, India, South Africa, China and Saudi Arabia, as well as some richer ones, are growing dissatisfied with the workings of California-based ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the semi-private internet address regulator set up five years ago.
bq. The critics argue that the internet is a public resource that should be managed by national governments and, at an international level, by an intergovernmental body such as the International Telecommunications Union, the UN agency that is organising the information summit.
bq. However, the US and the European Commission are staunchly defending the Icann model, which is based on minimal regulation and commercial principles. Icann members are predominantly drawn from industrialised countries and the established internet community.
The majority of those nations calling for U.N. regulation are those with egregious security and human rights problems. Nice people...
Posted by DaveH at November 10, 2003 3:46 PM