Posted on 11/26/2012 1:16:07 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Next week the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union will meet in Dubai to figure out how to control the Internet. Representatives from 193 nations will attend the nearly two week long meeting, according to news reports.
"Next week the ITU holds a negotiating conference in Dubai, and past months have brought many leaks of proposals for a new treaty. U.S. congressional resolutions and much of the commentary, including in this column, have focused on proposals by authoritarian governments to censor the Internet. Just as objectionable are proposals that ignore how the Internet works, threatening its smooth and open operations," reports the Wall Street Journal.
"Having the Internet rewired by bureaucrats would be like handing a Stradivarius to a gorilla. The Internet is made up of 40,000 networks that interconnect among 425,000 global routes, cheaply and efficiently delivering messages and other digital content among more than two billion people around the world, with some 500,000 new users a day. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
It would be such a shame if people used the internet to make comments on how funny it would to shoot Useless Nations (UN) bureaucrats.
And then talked about those bomb Black Friday sales; especially those sweet gun deals at Dick Sporting goods. Who wouldn't attack such a great deal on a Remington 700? Or all those wonderful chemicals caffeine and nicotine to stay awake on late night shopping trips? Unfortunately the Surgeon General thinks those are poison for you. By the way, did anyone see the mass panic stories about Wal Mart's BF sales?
Fixed it...
I would rather hand a Stradivarius to a gorilla than hand over the INTERNET to the U.N.
I think the gorilla would be SMARTER than the UN people!!
When ya see the big white trucks and armored psersonnel carriers coming down the road in a hugh convoy to your local community, U’kNow what’s next. time to raise carrier pigeons or invest in mini-drones.. when freedom of virtual thought is forbidden ,, no one wins.
Should be quite interesting to see what “Anonymous” makes of this threat.
Dunno.
Aren’t there backbones that carry vast amounts of information between networks, core routers that direct their flow, and organizations that allocate IPs and Domain Names?
Control of that infrastructure and the organizations controlling domain names and IP allocation might amount to control of the “Internet.”
I wonder whether algore is on the invitation list?
I kicked notes to my Congresscritter and Senator to oppose all things U.N., and specifically the arms and prop 21 deals. Congressman Pallazo’s response was not reassuring even though he’s supposed to be a staunch conservative. I urge all on FR to send multiple emails to their reps.
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