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ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet
Internet Ninja writes "The UN/ITU-organized World Summit on the Information Society currently happening in Geneva, and in attendance is Paul Twomey from ICANN, who has been ejected from a preparatory meeting, along with all other non-governmental observers. Obviously Twomey wasn't happy about that, saying: 'At ICANN, anybody can attend meetings, appeal decisions or go to ombudsmen. And here I am outside a UN meeting room where diplomats, most of whom know little about the technical aspects, are deciding in a closed forum how 750 million people should reach the Internet. I am not amused.'" We've previously reported on this meeting, which may help decide governance of the Internet, albeit in the longer-term.
If the UN ever controls the Internet, forget it: I'm building my own damn (inter)network. What do we want controlling the Internet: a bunch of stupid diplomats, most from dictatorial nations, or a democratic, open ICANN? Granted, sometimes ICANN does screw up, but it does a decent job.
UN == US, I fail to see what difference this makes.
will be free speech. You mark my words in stone.
The rest of the world is P.I.S.S.E.D. at the level of free speech exercised on US based servers and they seek to stop it at all costs.
The US has the most liberal speech laws in the world and the rest of the world can not allow that.
You watch and see, they'll institute international tribunals to arrest speech violaters (thought criminals) and whisk them away to The Hague for a trial by tribunal and internatinal justice for thought crimes...
And the U.S.A.,, you tosser!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Unfree regimes? You mean like the US, which is currently suffering under the yoke of militarised corperate feudalism?
Let us talk about freedoms, while the US reverses the preasure it put on the New Zealand government to shut down the Backyard Cruise Missile project illegally.