U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet

veggie boy writes "A U.S. official strongly objected to any notion of a U.N. body taking control of the domain servers that direct traffic on the Internet." From the article: "'We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet,' said Ambassador David Gross, the U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy at the State Department. 'Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable.' Many countries, particularly developing ones, have become increasingly concerned about the U.S. control, which stems from the country's role in creating the Internet as a Pentagon project and funding much of its early development."

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Re:Why?

[Dominatus]

"If the USA doesn't like living in a world where there are multiple countries to deal with, they can just close their borders and shut down their trade. Noone will miss them."

It seems more likely that the world doesn't like living in a world where there people own the things they pay for and develop.

Re:To the U.N. haters:

[donutello]

Poppycock! So if the US paid the UN all the money it wanted and stopped voting on things the world would be a wonderful place with Libya running the Human Rights commission and dictators like Saddam would have nothing to fear as long as they made sure France and Russia were getting exclusive oil contracts.

Maybe you think the world would be a better place if it were run by the likes of China, Cuba and the former Soviet Union. Every intelligent person in the world would disagree with you. The US has been the only thing standing in the way of that.

Does your socialized education system actively brainwash you into believing the garbage you spew or do they just make sure you are stupid so you can absorb this crap from the other morons around you?