EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US

Anonymous Coward writes "The Guardian is reporting that the EU, obviously unimpressed with the US's refusal to relinguish control of the Internet, will be forming several comittees and forums with a mind to forcibly remove control of the Internet from the United States." From the article: "Old allies in world politics, representatives from the UK and US sat just feet away from each other, but all looked straight ahead as Hendon explained the EU had decided to end the US government's unilateral control of the internet and put in place a new body that would now run this revolutionary communications medium. The issue of who should control the net had proved an extremely divisive issue, and for 11 days the world's governments traded blows. For the vast majority of people who use the internet, the only real concern is getting on it. But with the internet now essential to countries' basic infrastructure - Brazil relies on it for 90% of its tax collection - the question of who has control has become critical."

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A word or two for UN and EU:

[sjs132]

Build your own Friggin' Internet! Then we can disconnect you from ours, LEECHES! It was US RESEARCH and MONEY that funded the DARPA research that birthed the internet... Take a hike if you don't want to play by our rules!

Think of the spam that will be eliminated because we disconnect the internet from the rest of the world... No more zombie china computers relaying spam...

Put up a large firewall... UN & EU > /dev/null

Blah! You know where you can goto on this one...