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| Jul 14 2005
| Aoife White
Posted on 07/16/2005 6:52:29 AM PDT by grundle
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This is just dumb. The old phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a cliche, but true. The U.N. has a really bad idea here. This is really a political agenda, not a technological one. If China or whoever doesn't like how the internet is being run, then they can create their own internet and run it however they want. I think what the U.N. really objects to is the free flow, unregulated, uncensored access to information that people currently have on the internet. I don't see how the U.N. could make the internet any better. But I do see how they could ruin it with their political agenda.
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posted on
07/16/2005 6:52:29 AM PDT
by
grundle
To: grundle
As far as I am concerned, if another country wants to build the appropriate infrastructure, let them...to do it my UN mandate is simply ridiculous.
To: grundle
...China even threatened a few years ago to split the Internet in two and set up its own naming system for Chinese.By all means, go right ahead.
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posted on
07/16/2005 6:57:40 AM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: grundle
Check out my posting yesterday on the Dissolution of Privacy in America.
Could it be that this is a probable source of where these lists are originating from?
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posted on
07/16/2005 6:58:06 AM PDT
by
THEBEAK
To: grundle
UN wants to control the Internet.
UN wants to tax individually within various Nation.
UN wants.....
UN wants.....
UN wants.....
UN is not much more than a source to scam Nations and enrich those who have positions or relatives in the UN. [Remember Food for Oil? Kofi's son's personal gain?]
Eventually, we will see the UN wanting reparations (from the wealthy Nations, of course) for worldly ills that long pre-dated the establishment of the UN. Hey, shakedowns have been working for Jesse Jackson for decades.
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posted on
07/16/2005 6:58:22 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: grundle
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posted on
07/16/2005 6:59:21 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: grundle
So we really want the UN GC member nations to hold the whip hand over us?
Remember, that's where there non-security issues are governed.
Yep, the US would be outvoted by Algeria and Zimbabwe.
Bye bye Free Republic.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:01:02 AM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: grundle
my guess is a president like hillary would allow the u.n. control over the internet in order to subdue her opposition.
meanwhile, the u.n. would love control for the purpose of raising an international sales tax.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:01:20 AM PDT
by
ken21
(it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
To: grundle
When it comes to the UN, I have three words: Oil For Food.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:02:14 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: grundle
this is about sovreignty, again.......canada and australia URL's are sovereign in that they contain a dot-ca or au.....adding a dot-us URL component would be cheap and easy, and wouldn't give up another piece of sovreignty to globalists.
To: markomalley
They can start their own internet if they want to.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:06:11 AM PDT
by
stocksthatgoup
(http://www.busateripens.com)
To: mewzilla
When it comes to the UN, I have three words: Oil For Food. I have three words for the U.N. too, but much stronger, so I will just use letters.
G.F.Y.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:08:40 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
To: grundle
They're really desperate to take control of the Internet from the US (where it was invented) in order to control the flow of information to the Plebes, who'd stop dreaming of freedom as long as all the dirty propaganda outta the US (like FR) can be banned. It's for the children.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:08:51 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
To: grundle
I love how the headline frames the story as if it were just a simple question of fairness. Should one country control the Internet? Gosh, no, that's unfair. Then hand it over to the UN.
Good grief.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:09:44 AM PDT
by
RedRover
To: grundle
Since the internet was invented by none other than our resident genius, Al Gore, I feel the USA has every right and obligation to control it.
What entity is better qualified anyway, that good old UN oil for food scam machine?
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:10:25 AM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Better a thousand Lawyers starve, than one innocent person pay for their caviar.)
To: grundle
Developing countries have been frustrated that Western countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations to share a limited supply. Hey dingbats at AP!
They can just wait for IPv6.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:11:10 AM PDT
by
demlosers
(Allegra: Do not believe the garbage the media is feeding you back home.)
To: grundle
What does Al say?
To: grundle
We invented it. We built it. We funded it. U.N. wants to control it.
No thanks.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:13:12 AM PDT
by
Washi
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law)
To: grundle
This is why they call it
cyberspace.
The word cyber, comes from the greek which originally meant a helmsman; one who governed a ship. In modern greek it means to govern.
A world government is coming, and it will start with the Internet.
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posted on
07/16/2005 7:14:50 AM PDT
by
Bear_Slayer
(DOC - 81mm Mortars, Wpns Co. 2/3 KMCAS 86-89)
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
dot US already exists and has for a long time. most countries have a Dot "country" such as de for germany, it for italy, etc.
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