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Story: Keep Internet out of UN control, says US
Posted by: Michael Thompson (Thursday 20 October 2005, 10:07 AM)
Just a few points:
The "Internet" was originated in the US, but it's development is an international effort. The best example being the World-Wide-Web. Do you know who Tim Berners-Lee is? He is British and is the originator of the WWW. No single organisation or country should have control over what is an international effort.
As far as Taxes go, where did the UN state they intended to Tax people to use the internet? The statement says:
" Suggestions that have been made include new mandates for "consumer protection," the power to levy taxes on domain names to pay for "universal access," ....."
These are suggestions made by ministers from other countries. These are not UN objectives. Get your facts straight!
"...sacrificing access to information, privacy and protection of intellectual property we have all depended on."
Somehow this seems propagandist to me. Currently we have very little privacy on the internet and it is also a place where the violation of intellectual property is thriving. And this is under US control. I don't believe any single entity should have complete control and certainly not the US!
As for this bit "The Bush administration recently raised objections to the proposed addition of .xxx as a red-light district for pornographers, for instance, a veto power that no other government is able to wield." - how free and Democratic is that? More like hypocritic than democratic!
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This reminds me of the farscape pro... Setsuna
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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
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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.
