GENEVA — The United States, backed by the European Union, Japan and Canada, has turned back a bid by developing nations to place the Internet under the control of the United Nations or its member governments.
But governments, the private sector and others will be asked to establish a mechanism under U.N. auspices to study the governance of the Internet and make recommendations by 2005.
What hair-brained idea, anyway - of course it’s been rejected. Imagine government crack down and controls on the internet? It really would only provoke and motivate hackers to create the ‘underground webroad’, as it were.
The UN to govern what we write, how and when and where we express our thoughts and ideas?
Wait . . . wait - - - back up a step here . . . . .
The UN to govern ANYTHING? They don’t say ‘Ignorance is Blix’ fer nuthin’.
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3:38 am on December 8th, 2003
argh freedom of speech duuuuude
7:02 am on December 8th, 2003
Which you wouldn’t have if the dictators of the world had any say in the internet… And that’s what’s scariest about this idea.
8:57 pm on December 11th, 2003
The UN insulted ICANN
Recently, Lisa and Vinny wrote about the UN’s insane contemplation of attempting to govern the internet. You would think that in any consideration on this subject, involving ICANN in discussions wo…