UN fight for internet control lined up in Brazil

The Register ^ | 13 Nov 2015 | Kieren McCarthy

[Salman]

The end of this year will see yet one more effort by some governments to grab greater control of the internet when the United Nations General Assembly meets in New York.

As an appetizer to that main event, the annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) took place this week in Brazil and at the center of the debate was how decisions over the internet's future evolution should be made.

Will it be "multistakeholder" which means that everyone including governments, business, the technical community and civil society has an equal say? Or will it be "multilateral," which means that governments will be in the driving seat, with the other groups invited to advise in ways that governments devise?

That has been the underlining theme of the conference leading to seemingly endless references to both "multistakeholder" and "multilateral" systems. Given the diverse crowd, the word "multistakeholder" won in terms of repetition and publicly stated defense.

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[Salman]

Do they want to tax it, censor it, or kill it? Or all three?

[butlerweave]

The United Nations is becoming the Evil Empire

[BenLurkin]

The New Order — to which Americans need to be the Resistance.

[Trillian]

Muslims are waging war and slaughtering people all over the world and these a$$holes are worried about controlling the internet and their global warming scam. Priorities people, priorities.

[Lake Living]

Once governments get their hands on any part of it that will be the end. It might not start out that way but, as we have seen time and time again, it will end that way. Look how the progressive pine for the good ole days of Walter Cronkite. They can’t stand a free press.