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US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web

Posted by timothy on from the flying-standby dept.

Velcroman1 writes "Slashdotters have been reading for months about the upcoming ITU conference next month in Dubai, which will propose new regulations and restrictions for the Internet that critics say could censor free speech, levy tariffs on e-commerce, and even force companies to clean up their 'e-waste' and make gadgets that are better for the environment. Concerns about the closed-door event have sparked a Wikileaks-style info-leaking site, and led the State Department on Wednesday to file a series of new proposals or tranches seeking to ensure 'competition and commercial agreements — and not regulation' as the meeting's main message. Terry Kramer, the chief U.S. envoy to the conference, says the United States is against sanctions. '[Doing nothing] would not be a terrible outcome at all,' Kramer said recently."

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  1. Anything that comes out of the UN by na1led · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is going to be bad for the rest of us.

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    1. Re:Anything that comes out of the UN by Dishevel · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cool. So we will just talk about reputations that are earned.
      The US. Does not give a shit about anything outside the US.
      France
      A stuck up surrender Monkey country that can not figure out why guaranteeing jobs for life could be a bad thing.
      Germany
      Nazi fuckers that want to rule the world and have great need for really freaky sex.
      Israel
      Bad ass little fuckers that are US puppets.
      Saudi Arabia
      Terrorist bastards that hate women.
      Iraq
      Terrorist bastards that hate women.
      Iran
      Terrorist bastards that hate women.
      Afghanistan
      Terrorist bastards that hate women.
      Pakistan
      Terrorist bastards that hate women.
      Syria
      Terrorist bastards that hate women.
      Egypt
      Terrorist bastards that hate women.
      UK
      Tea sucking bastards that taxed the US in to freedom.
      Ireland
      Terrorist bastards that hate not drinking.
      Scotland
      Drinkers that wear dresses.
      Russia
      Vodka drinkers that sell their women.

      Need I go on?
         

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  2. Re:My Plan by tnk1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More to the point, it currently *works*. It's not like the system is broken now, it's just that some other people want pieces of the pie. And they could have that, if they wanted it, by building and maintaining their own infrastructure.

    However, they don't want to do that. They just want to make money off of, and regulate, what other people built and bought for them.