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Should the UN Replace ICANN?
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo news has a story on how some developing countries want control of the assignment of network names and numbers turned over to an international body, such as the UN's ITU (International Telecommunication Union)."
Say NO to the UN.
The UN has got to be the most currupt buerocracy on the planet. They just had the biggest corruption scandal ever. Bigger than ENRON and WorldCom combined.
Oh, and their peacekeepers are busy abusing children.
With the tsunami aid effort, they were mostly concerned with holding meetings in 5 star hotels while other people did the real work.
They also constantly bash israel without ever mentioning that the palestinean side is not exactly peaceful either.
And they have recently decided that what is happening in sudan is not genocide. I guess they will decide it was genocide after all when everybody is dead. Like they did in ruanda.
The UN should be dismantled or at least seriously reformed. They should not get any more responsibilities, since they are obviously unable to cope with the responsibilities they have in an ethical manner.
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Here are the UN sanctioned domain names: .UN (UN) .BM (boom) .JD (jihad) .TW (third world) .FA (famine) .BH (blue helmet) .WC (war criminals) .OF (oil for food)
I don't agree with all the UN-bashing going on here...it's just lowbrow americans repeating what they've been told to believe. But I'm with you on this one: the ITU is the right body to regulate the internet. It's composed of engineers.
So what you're realling saying is that you object to the ideals of the U.S. Constitution being considered universal rights. How dare one of the most liberal countries, in a representative body composed mostly of dictatorships and banana republics, not want to turn over control of part of the Internet to that body where it'll only be abused?
My God, people in Africa might actually start thinking that a trial by jury is a human right not luxury of the state and people in Europe might start thinking that they actually do have a right to speak their minds without being attacked by the politically correct police.
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We do deserve some grief over some of the trade issues, we have made some nasty mistakes, but those are being taken care of are they not?
Most of those "opposed" to US international agenda are the ones that are unhappy that the Cold War is over and upset that the US actually expects them to fucking knock it off already (France, Germany, Russia, etc, etc etc) and quit selling weapons and nuke tech to every other third world nation.
If you want to get in the nitty gritty of it all. Afganistan is Russia's fault, well wait weren't the Germans there before for them causing trouble, and we cannot forget the French and British colonial ambitions.
Did we make a mess by using the tactic of "The Enemy of my Enemy is a friend" to fight the Communist threat. (Everyone has seemed to conviently forgotten thatt Iraq was an ally in the Cold War with the USSR?) Hell yea we did, but we are paying for it in blood and money, and you know what we are cleaning up said mess, unlike so many countries who tend to be our biggest detracters in addition to being the biggest contributers to the nightmare that is the Middle East today.
If the US had aspirations of global dominancy we would already own the planet. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot and has obviously never actually been to the US. (There are plenty of Global International Companies that would like too, but they do not repesent the US people.)
We had the opportunity at total global domination 50 years ago, lets see how that played out. Had control of Europe gave it back. Had control of England or could have gave it back. Had control of the Middle East gave it back Had control of Japan gave it back Had control of portions of Asia gave it back Had Control of portions of Africa gave it back Could have steamrolled Russia (Who made the Nazies look the kind of people you'd let baby sit your kids) we should have but didn't We were the only country not destroyed economically by WWII so what did we do? We poured money to rebuild everyone else, who with a few exceptions never paid us back.
I'm ranting since I'm sick of lets take a stab at the US to some how validate their argument tactics. The UN is a political organization and has no business dealing with what was and still isa primarily a US business venture sponsored by public and private funds. Any country can set up their own internet and tell us to piss off, but if they want to play in our game then they are going to have to play by our rules.
That and the fact the UN does not like the US...to put it bluntly. I'm sure if Microsoft of IBM had their domain name hijacked, the UN would prolly say "too bad, these names are up for grabs in an equal manor. Hey france, you wanted these domains registered when? Tomorrow? ok, done."
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