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Lessig on Internet Governance
tcd004 writes "Should the United Nations control the Internet? That's the subject of a heated debate slated to take place at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis later this month. The European Union is pressing for a U.N. role in governing the Internet, which is currently in the hands of a U.S. nonprofit. Lawrence Lessig breaks down the debate and offers his views. An interesting point: in order to participate in Summit-related events Lessig had to promise not to talk about intellectual property." From the article: "What people are afraid of is that there will be a split within the single hierarchical system which would result in two different populations of the dot-com domain name system existing out there. Then there would be a real conflict. My view is that if in fact there is a separation like that, there are a lot of incentives for these two separate roots to figure out a way to coexist. There would be lots of anger [when] you realize that you're not getting the IBM.com you expected. But there's no reason why you couldn't have multiple root systems."
typical /.er advocate for free as beer, free unlimited access to information and avoidance of coorporate domination.... But for lot of guys like you seems ok that usa CONTROLS the root servers. don't you see the irony here?????.
Let me try to make this clear. I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHO INVENTED THE FIRST INTERNET VERSION. These days the internet is vital as air, so nobody should have CONTROL of it. It's truly obvious that any decision regarding root servers should be taken in a recognized entity like UN.
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Ofcourse there is no other country or organization capable of doing a better job than USA, admitting to that would be to admit that you are brainwashed, kind of like getting an alcoholic to admit he is an alcoholic, not easy even though everyone else sees it.
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However it isn't right to demand that the US give up their DNS systems. The "but everyone uses it" argument isn't compelling. Everyone uses Google too, that doesn't mean that they should be forced to give themselves up to the UN.
Exactly, if the EU wasn't a bunch of damn commies we wouldn't be having this discussion!
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1st off the UN is evil. 2nd the USA created the internet ... thus we own it.