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Story: Keep Internet out of UN control, says US
Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 19 October 2005, 3:45 PM)
For the US this issue has everything to do with national interest, and a strong sense of property rights and control over assets created almost entirely in the US and under the original auspices of defense interests.
There also is a strong component of the freedom of speech and an even stronger component of the entreprenaurial spirit in the use of the WWW in commerce.
The incredible phenomena and structure of this world wide communication must be very appealing to the UN from the standpoint of the ability to tax and generate revenue with no attendent infrastructure expense of its own.
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Story: Keep Internet out of UN control, says US
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If the US is not willing to allow the U.N to have... Michael Thompson -
Who created the Internet? It is my recolecti... Anonymous -
Is the Internet an international media?... Anonymous -
Just a few points:
The "Internet" was origin... Michael Thompson
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Perhaps we should let the US have their... Anonymous -
This reminds me of the farscape pro... Setsuna
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Really, what concerns me is having... Anonymous
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Really, what concerns me is re... Anonymous
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Turn the internet over to the... Anonymous
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The U.N. is unable to control it's own members and... Oldator
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The only reason the UN wants in on the contro... John Quigley II
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The US is unable to control it's own eco... Anonymous
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The only reason the US wants control of... Anonymous
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Notwithstanding that the UN is probably not compet... johnjc
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For the US this issue has everything to do wi... Anonymous -
First of all America is the one who does... William J. Schatten
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Well, I would agree that making the domain databas... Francois Stiglitz
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No single nation, organization, entitiy or whateve... Arthur B.
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The internet has thrived under US control wit... Anonymous
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World Wide Web?!?
Or is it the United States Web t... Jake Komisar
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The UN actually doesn't levy taxes of any kin... Dez
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The Internet does advance human interest unde... Anonymous
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I think the Internet is better compared with inter... Arthur B.
