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UN Wants To Regulate Internet
LegendOfLink writes "News.com has good interview with the UN's ITU Director, Houlin Zhao, and his desire to regulate the internet. He says
"One of the most important changes was the early stages, when the Internet started, when ICANN started in 1998. The purpose was to exclude governments (but that didn't work). People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role.
People say the Internet flourished because of the absence of government control. I do not agree with this view. I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service? If there are any Internet governance structure changes in the future, I think government rules will be more important and more respected." "
I know this is odd and far off...but couldn't such a thing lead to an internet form of communism?
It's time to create the outernet.
I, for one, welcome our new UN Regulatory overlords...
everybody.
But I think we should let the internet decide.
1) the U.N.
2) Ralph Nader
3) China
4) Cowboy Neal
I'm going to sit this one out.
air and light and time and space
I'm not sure how exactly, but it will in some way involve black helicopters.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
If you go trading jpegs of Chariman Zhao, You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow...
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
...I look forward to ignoring UN regulation.
I trust this guy about as far as I can throw a Chevy Suburban
That's like what, 3 Volkswagen Beetles?
I can see it now. "Open up! It's the internet police! We know you're sending spam in there!!!1!!!!11one!!"
*sigh*
Let the conspiracy theories begin.
This sig no verb.
Stick with censoring your own country's access to information but keep your damn hands off of mine. I can just see the next UN scandal. Porn for food program.
Well, anything that leads to the bombing of AOL can't be ALL bad.
but we should /. the un website
maybe they will write a resolution demanding we stop...
shooting is not too good for my enemies
Right on, I agree 100%.
Assuming, of course, that by attention you mean pedophile rapists.
That's what you meant, right?
everything in moderation
The UN doesnt want to control the internet (at least not according to anything in this piece) The ITU director wants to control the internet. Thats a big difference. Im an officer in the US Army. I want a higher salary. CMDR Taco should now post an article saying "US Army pushing for higher salaries."
The next UN scandal is already in progres, the Jordanian peacekeepers having sex with goats scandal.
No, I am not making this up.
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I forget, is Koji Annan a US or UK Security Council rep?
That's like having an impotent virgin gay man telling me how to fuck my wife.
Catholic priests do *exactly* that (although I doubt they're virgin).
Principal Skinner: "Do you kids want to be like the real UN, or do you want to squabble and waste time?"
Since you're a long-time /.er, I think it's safe to say that him telling or not telling you how do fuck your wife is irrelevant.
But if China was running the Internet, we really COULD get spammers taken out and shot.
Decisions, decisions...
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
Instead, I would like to challenge someone to explain how this could possibly be a good thing.
The families of trolls will be charged the price of the bullet.
You can't take the sky from me...
I don't know, one time I drank a shitload, when I woke up the next day I couldn't remember the address for slashdot. I guess it all depends on which brain cells got nuked that night.
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Simple. The security council veto only exists to ratify reality, which is that you can't stop a sufficiently powerful sovereign nation from doing what it wants to do. When India's ability to act with impunity reaches the level of the UK's, then the UK should be ejected and India substituted.
Another issue is how the EU can act like a country when it suits them (setting and enforcing trade policy), and like separate countries when it suits them (voting in the UN).
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Read me now...ALL INFORMATION THAT EXISTS IS BIASED.
Not so, mister smarty-pants. For example, the information I get from Fox News is not biased. It's Fair and Balanced. Seriously. It says so right up front, so it must be true. Who could call that biased?
Well, the government would be out of a job if it didn't keep making new laws all the time.
And we wouldn't want a Government that didn't interfere any more would we.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
welcome our new UN Internet-regulating overlords.
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
U fear the UN it seems....U should....It shall undermine your world dominance......many want US to rule....even more want US to fall....and I...want neither...I prefer UN over US....it is no good, being "ruled" either way..:( And you...talk...like William...Shatner...
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
"...like having an impotent virgin gay man telling me how to fuck my wife."
Welcome to the Catholic Church.
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