Five Webloggers Jailed In Iran

Free Speech Geek writes "Reporters Without Borders recently published an article titled 'Five Webloggers Jailed' on their Web site. In this article, they list the names of 5 Iranians who have recently been jailed for no other reason than the fact that they published Web logs that were critical of the government. This story is timely because the UN has recently convened a 'UN Working Group on Internet Governance' and one of their key agenda items seems to be to take over the Domain Name System from ICAAN. One can't help but noting that the Iranian delegate to the UN is on the UN Working Group and conclude that control of the DNS is going to be the next big battleground for freedom of speech." (These arrests follow those reported in mid-October.)

Comments

UN controll over DNS...

[zulux]

No fucking way.

ICANN sucks but the UN is a corrupt and filled with pompous idiots. Next thing you know, the Secretary General's son will own your domain name, and you'll have to pay his Swiss lords a monthly fee to use it.

I'll take the regular idiots at ICANN, thank you.

Re:UN controll over DNS...

[flyneye]

Hmmm,I agree but one of my favorite adages;"Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the U.S." still sounds better than" Get the internet out of the U.N. and the the U.N. off the internet".
How about just plain old:
Disband the U.N. in the name of Peace!
or
Save the Internet,Kill a U.N. official!
or lets just get proactive and put the U.N. on a small Pacific Island with no communications,boats or aircraft,mine the waters around the island and let the U.N. delegate dictate and masturbate to their hearts content while the world prospers without them.