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1 posted on 11/16/2005 7:55:34 AM PST by cope85
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To: cope85

camels nose under the tent.


2 posted on 11/16/2005 7:57:41 AM PST by taxcontrol (People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: cope85

Chipping away at the rock of freedom...


3 posted on 11/16/2005 7:58:12 AM PST by Edgerunner (Proud to be an infidel)
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To: cope85

This is sounding more and more like the Clinton administration, that never saw an international agreement it didn't sign. The nose of the globalist camel is under the tent. The US should not have even been at the meeting in Tunis, but should have sent them this message: It's OUR net.


4 posted on 11/16/2005 8:00:19 AM PST by kittymyrib
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IMO, Bush should have thanked them for their opinions and claimed a pen malfunction before not signing this. The UN is full of slimy operators and I have a VERY bad feeling about this.


5 posted on 11/16/2005 8:03:55 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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Reassuring to know that two cretins like Mugabe
and Annan, who need assistance just to know how to turn a computer on, have influence over the Internet.
6 posted on 11/16/2005 8:04:35 AM PST by Mulch (tm)
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It's our internet. It's our gift to the world. If you don't like it, leave.


8 posted on 11/16/2005 8:06:27 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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No friggin way the UN gets the internet. This is as important as any national defense issue we face.


11 posted on 11/16/2005 8:10:00 AM PST by narby (Hillary! The Wicked Witch of the Left)
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...the Bush administration formally endorsed the creation of an "Internet Governance Forum" that will meet for the first time in 2006 under the auspices of the UN.

This can only be the first of many steps in bringing the internet under the control of those governments who suppress free speech as a matter of political policy. Eventually those restrictions on the net would find a home with our own politicians.

Also, suppression of the net would once again make the liberal MSM the gatekeepers of information. That can never be allowed to happen again.

13 posted on 11/16/2005 8:12:48 AM PST by Noachian (To Control the Judiciary The People Must First Control The Senate)
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To those that think this is giving the internet to UN.... get a grip. This does nothing of the sort. All it does is set up a discussion group to make the international community feel empowered.
They have no control and nothing they say at these meetings matter. These UN crybabies like their little forums so they have an excuse to leave whatever particular hellhole they live in and travel to Switzerland or whatever. It will be forgotten soon enough.
15 posted on 11/16/2005 8:15:37 AM PST by CompGeek
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The WSJ said, yesterday, that the likely, eventual outcome will be separate controls in different areas, such as China and Europe. This is really the best that we can hope for.


17 posted on 11/16/2005 8:17:41 AM PST by Eva
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US endorses Internet Governance Forum

More honest to say: "Attempt to take over DNS relegated to harmless UN committee who will bicker endlessly and never be heard from again"

The only real danger is that a Dim majority and/or Dim president might enlarge this and turn over control of DNS to the UN later. Or succumb to global taxation via internet, although this is less likely since our domestic socialists mostly like to grab and keep the money for themselves.

There's a bill in the House, I think, that would codify U.S. control of DNS into U.S. law. I think the uppity DNS-grabbers backed down out of fear that their actions would ensure its passage. Hopefully, the sponsors will finish and pass the bill anyway.
19 posted on 11/16/2005 8:18:31 AM PST by George W. Bush
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Let the UN set up their own freakin' internet, and see how many people willingly subject themselves to its yoke. Seriously, set up a .un domain, and let the crooks administer it, and we'll see just how long it lasts and how much good it does. Otherwise, they need to STFU.


20 posted on 11/16/2005 8:19:39 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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We've got a forum right here, the UN doesn't need another one. And, if Kofi tries to take over the internet don't worry -- Sony can shut it down overnight with a few CDs.


22 posted on 11/16/2005 8:21:19 AM PST by MilleniumBug
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Done pretty well so far without their governance. Might keep on doing well. Might free a billion Chinese. Don't we want that, Mr. President?


24 posted on 11/16/2005 8:26:14 AM PST by Graymatter
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Hopefully, this is a "feel-good" resolution for the whiners -- the equivalent of giving Barney Fife a bullet that he can keep in his shirt pocket to make him feel important...


25 posted on 11/16/2005 8:27:20 AM PST by DJ Frisat
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To: cope85

bookmark.


26 posted on 11/16/2005 8:29:50 AM PST by Alia
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Not to worry this is a non-binding forum, like the General assembly of the UN. The US, and Icann still control the addressing and all the important stuff, this is meant to shut up the euro twits, it still most likely will not work but hey we can dream!


27 posted on 11/16/2005 8:29:53 AM PST by Arabs only 600 years behind us (Kick the French out of France)
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What "injustices" are the marxists conjuring up that the USA are doing?


29 posted on 11/16/2005 8:40:49 AM PST by smith288 (Peace at all cost makes for tyranny free of charge...)
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The Guardian printed a long whiny article that makes it clear the US has lost nothing, and not only has the EU not won anything, it looked like a wimp at Tunis:By the end, what was left was an acceptance of the status quo with promises that they would be open to reform.... Internet watchers were puzzled by the EU's backtracking...

The following sentence appears in the article. I post the sentence so all of us who are American can gasp in awe at the British command of the English language, as it is exemplified at the Guardian. See how many mistakes you can find, just for fun:

The finally wording remains to be decided but reform will have to take place in the governmental advisory committee of Icann, which plays only an advisory role.

30 posted on 11/16/2005 8:50:57 AM PST by kaylar
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"It is a matter of justice and legitimacy that all people must have a say in the way the Internet is governed,"

If All People created the internet, then, All People should have a say.

They didn't. They squatted in their mud huts and ate bugs while others worked and created.

31 posted on 11/16/2005 8:52:44 AM PST by Gorzaloon
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