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U.N. To Govern Internet?
Falmarian writes "Apparently the rest of the world isn't happy about the US franchise on internet governance. A news.com article discusses the possibility that the U.N. will make a bid for control of such governing functions as assigning TLDs and IPs." From the article: "At issue is who decides key questions like adding new top-level domains, assigning chunks of numeric Internet addresses, and operating the root servers that keep the Net humming. Other suggested responsibilities for this new organization include Internet surveillance, 'consumer protection,' and perhaps even the power to tax domain names to pay for 'universal access.'"
Ask the people of Darfur how the UN has failed to even try to protect them
Remember that it took ~3 years for the Bush Amdinistration to decide that "Hey, it is a genocide after all" - and they're not exactly jumping up to do anything about it.
Can't really say the US has done better managing things in Iraq than the UN has done anywhere.
Actually, it's the despotic dictators who blame trade practices. The starving people blame the despotic dictators.
I'm glad I moved and if you are not a anglo christian reconstructionist you should move too.
The fact is that all of humanity needs to civilize the world and this will not be accomplished free of charge. I live in comfortable neighborhood (outside of the US) and I pay to keep it that way... because I want to live in a nice place. If globalization has taught anything it is that all of humanity is limited by the poverty and suffering of the masses...It is a sort of least common denominator. Honestly I'd like to live in a world without both terrorism and fascism. Maybe the americans can't see it but the rest of the world can, america is becoming exactly what they fight against.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Way to dodge legitimate evidence by attacking Fox, you fucking retarded prick.
In the midwest, they're called John Deer. In California, they're called Mexicans. We also have relatively abundant water sources and aerable land.
If they're starving, they're obviously not producing enough food for their own needs, and unlikely to care about their prospects for exporting it. Africa's real problem is that they ate the milk producing cows and goats. That's after they slaughtered the rest of the herd that was going to breed the next generation. This is because they got desperate and ate next year's seed instead of planting it. Everytime the rest of the world trys to kickstart their food production with breeding stock or seeds, they just eat it.
What Africa really needs are some educated, business-minded people to properly organize and run things there. There's tons of land and people just waiting around for something to do.
Making the citizenry more dead is the first that comes to mind.
Redistribution of wealth at the point of a gun?
Texas can't enter the UN either, so what? Taiwan is not a country, it's a provience of China you idiot.