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Governing the Internet Report Released

An anonymous reader writes "After the speculation on earlier this week, the Working Group of Internet Governance (aka the United Nations attempt to govern the Internet) has just released their much anticipated report. News coverage and a helpful summary point to the four options on the table and the likely outcome in the months leading up to a final conference in Tunisia in November."

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  1. Re:Already prepared to take over? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Absolutely. And hopefully China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and Cuba are on the advisory panel, and any sort of political speech is outright banned.

    I figure it's what you fuckers deserve anyway.

  2. what the US should do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I've said this many times but I'll repeat once again, this general purpose net connection stack tcp/ip has to go. In its place a large defined set of protocols can allow broadcast style networking for the internet savvy consumer, and if Microsoft had the lead in engineering this, you can be sure that most computers would be compatible, and Microsoft could also sell "Microsoft Gateway" products to let Apple participate.

    This set of protocols could allow trusted machines to receive properly licensed and authorized content but still filter out other less useful but more dangerous content/extentions like exe's, zips, tar.gz's, bz2, py, and iso's, and additionally any encrypted content, and the major webserver venders would have to outlaw application/octet mime types to regain control of the internet-turned-piracy haven that the thieves like warez groups and gnu have perverted, not to mention all the pornography and child molesting an open internet produces.

    Its time to make the net safe again for our families and businesses.

  3. Re:The four options... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're an idiot. No, the Internet is not an american invention (seriously, lots of other nations took part in the actual development of what is the Internet) and there's a lot more people on the net than americans.

    Sheez. What's with the nationalism. Grow up and smell a larger world. The USA is rapidly becoming (is) a fascist nation and your so-called freedom is all but gone. Most other western nations are a lot more free than yours.

  4. Screw the UN by brxndxn · · Score: -1, Troll

    I laugh at their attempts to try to be important. The UN is corrupt and it is Unconstitutional for the US government to give any sort of authority over the US to random leaders in small meaningless African countries.

    The UN is just trying to justify its existence.

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    --- We need more Ron Paul!
  5. Re:Already prepared to take over? by Vlatro · · Score: -1, Troll

    The internet is a big prize, and everybody wants a piece. I have no objection to humoring those countries who have a sound economy, a high tech industrial base, ect. They will act in the nets best intrest beacuse that will be the most profitable for them. But the UN are a bunch of f*cking socialists. I don't want to see technology held back as policies are made in favor of better serving the needs the third world. There are possible benefits to this, but I am undecided on wether they out weigh the risks. My advice... Let them make any policies they want, but let congress and the American consumer decide if they want to participate. They cannot exclude us from the internet for not obeying the rules. They cannot shut us down. Right now, and for some time to come, we control the physical infastructure. ¼ of the worlds major online News, entertainment, shops, auction sites, universities... (to name only a few) are hosted on american servers. The server farms in Sacramento, Washington, and Boston hold the hundereds of petabytes of data that makes up most of the internet. And our technology will always move faster than their policies. We'll keep moving right ahead while France, Germany, and most of Asia fight in a passive pissing contest, or sit in commitiees for months trying to figure out what to do. But then, this isn't about the betterment of the internet anyway. Its a symbol of American strength, and that pisses off those who lack the financial power, or intellegence to compete with us. The saddest part is the number of stupid liberals in america who actually take the UN seriously. Forget about this. Put your time to good use, attack the french, hang hillary clinton by her own entrails, or run people off the road who are still hopelessly sporting their John Kerry bumper sticker. That will make the world a better place, not that f*cking joke the UN has become.

  6. Re:Already prepared to take over? by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 0, Troll
    To be perfectly honest, having the internet run by a group where most of the members don't have much of a technology infastructure isn't very comforting either.

    Yeah, God forbid the have-nots getting a slice of the pie...

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    Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
  7. Re:Already prepared to take over? by meadowsp · · Score: -1, Troll

    Typical american scum. Advocates killing people to make the world a better place.