Brazil: No nation has right to rule Internet

foxnews.com ^ | April 23, 2014/

[BenLurkin]

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said at a gathering here Wednesday that no country can have "more weight than another" in governing cyberspace.

She made her remarks at the opening of the NETMundial international conference, where delegations from more than 85 countries will debate Internet regulation issues and try to reach agreement on a new oversight model.

The push to reformulate Internet governance gained momentum in Brazil after documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden showed the U.S. National Security Agency had spied on the phone calls and e-mails of Brazilian citizens and companies and the president herself.

[wideawake]

She's right.

Djibouti has contributed just as much to creating the Internet as the USA.

[ronnyquest]

Except, perhaps, the nation that created it and paid for it with American tax dollars.

[ken5050]

Let’s see if they can run a World Cup first...

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Who cares what a woman from Brazil who is apparently named after a cylindrical piece of plastic “thinks”?

[BenLurkin]

And here I thought it she Fred Flintstone’s sister-in-law.

[billorites]

"Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff..."

When I see the word "Brazilian" I think of wax job and I wince.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Sure we do. :-)

[Bronzewound]

Djibouti call. Don’t listen to it.

[Exeter]

You don’t like it, kitten? Then start your own internet...

[dforest]

Oh shut up Brazil, what have you slackers contributed to much of anything?

Even if we didn’t control what we created, we wouldn’t give it to you.

[rktman]

Um, would that have been a DARPA initiative? What about Lucerne SW? Any credit due there? I guess Brazil thinks the un should control it huh? They do so well with everything else they try to manage/control.

[rjsimmon]

Except, perhaps, the nation that created it and paid for it with American tax dollars.

Respectfully disagree. Although the US has provided a great deal for infrastructure locally, we provide little more than dues to the committee of standardization (ITC, W3C, IETF, etc.)

BTW, great tagline.

[hal ogen]

Stop using “our” internet, you brazilian slackers. Stop throwing all those carnivals and do something productive.

[dead]

When Brazil builds an internet, we'll make no effort to control it.

They can do that after they master sanitary drinking water.

[PeteB570]

So say all the nations that want to control the internet.

[eccentric]

agreed. They can set up their own system

[rktman]

Yeah. Like go to the beach or something. :>}

[Argus]

Brazil hasn’t produced anything useful since Astrid Giberto.

[Starstruck]

Al Gore owns the internet. He also owns Global Warming and was elected President in 2000. He came from the planet Krypton. Defy him at your own peril. He also has an army of Poodles.