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ICANN's Ex CEO Fronts Chinese Initiative On Running the Internet (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-boss dept.

Earthquake Retrofit points out this story at the Register which discusses what could be some big changes for the future of the internet. "On the last day of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, the conference organizers unexpectedly announced they had set up a new 'high-level advisory committee' that would guide the agenda of future conferences and 'contribute ideas for the development of the Internet.' The committee has already had its first meeting, the organizers stated, naming ICANN's Fadi Chehade and Alibaba CEO Jack Ma as its founders and noting that it had 'invited 31 leading Internet figures from governments, enterprises, academic institutions, and technological communities to be members of the first high-level advisory committee.' Those 'figures' have not been named but we understand they include government representatives from a number of authoritarian governments, including Russia, and do not include lead names from the internet community."

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  1. I can't believe some comments. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They're right from the Victorian era... it looks like I'm hearing the members of the Reform Club.

    But we need a Phileas Fogg, who believes in a world out there -- just like many great Americans did, BTW, only the mediocre thinks "America über alles" -- to travel abroad, to make the impossible happen, to save a non-white beauty -- and marry her!

    Sometimes even I think I'm hoping for too much...

    Anyway, you think China is wanting too much? I think the Internet is a kind of World Heritage and should be managed by the UN, not by one country, no matter how well-intentioned. That simply is not right.

    If we fail at doing that, I guess some sort of organization like the one used for telephone and mail will have to do.

  2. In other news by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We have a global ruling class who forms powerful international organizations to protect their interests. Who knew? Can we working class shlubs _please_ stop fighting among ourselves long enough to notice?

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