Should the UN govern the internet?

Tech | 208018 hits | Nov 29 9:57 am | Posted by: Strutz

A United Nations conference is set to debate whether the global body should play a larger role in governing the online world, stirring criticism from technology companies and rights activists who say the proposal holds potentially dire implications.

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by DrCaleb
Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:23 pm
No. No one should govern the Internet. Not Government, not companies, not NGOs. Nobody.
by PluggyRug
Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:29 pm
Vint Cerf, a vice-president at Google who helped design the architecture of the internet, described the campaign by ITU members in a recent interview with Reuters as “evidence that this breed of dinosaurs, with their pea-sized brains, hasn't figured out that they are dead yet because the signal hasn't travelled up their long necks."
by Zipperfish
Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:44 pm
"PluggyRug" said
Vint Cerf, a vice-president at Google who helped design the architecture of the internet, described the campaign by ITU members in a recent interview with Reuters as “evidence that this breed of dinosaurs, with their pea-sized brains, hasn't figured out that they are dead yet because the signal hasn't travelled up their long necks."

That is awesome. I will dropping that one in conversation at some point this week.
by Benn
Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:55 pm
"Zipperfish" said
Vint Cerf, a vice-president at Google who helped design the architecture of the internet, described the campaign by ITU members in a recent interview with Reuters as “evidence that this breed of dinosaurs, with their pea-sized brains, hasn't figured out that they are dead yet because the signal hasn't travelled up their long necks."

That is awesome. I will dropping that one in conversation at some point this week.

Now thats a great press statement lol
by dino_bobba_renno
Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:58 pm
So the UN (the United Nutjobs) wants to regulate the internet. The same people who had this to say about Quebec passing Bill 78
“Moves to restrict freedom of assembly in many parts of the world are alarming,” she said, according to a copy of her speech posted online. “In the context of student protests, I am disappointed by the new legislation passed in Quebec that restricts their rights to freedom of association and of peaceful assembly.”

But yet remained silent on this:
The United Arab Emirates, for example, took a tougher stance against online dissent earlier this month when it passed a new law that means anyone can be imprisoned for using the web to criticize the oil-rich Gulf country’s rulers or its institutions.

Ya, I can see that going really well.
by BartSimpson
Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:34 pm
The United Arab Emirates, for example, took a tougher stance against online dissent earlier this month when it passed a new law that means anyone can be imprisoned for using the web to criticize the oil-rich Gulf country’s rulers or its institutions.

The leaders of the UAE are a bunch of ignorant old corpses who secretly watch gay pron on their computers just like their hero Osama did.

Choke on it, b*tches!
by saturn_656
Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:17 am
Should the UN govern the internet?

Why?

So third world despots can fuck up the world wide web just like they fuck up everything else they touch at the UN?

Thanks, but no thanks.
by ShepherdsDog
Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:25 am
They need more resources to slam the Joos and praise terrorists.
by Public_Domain
Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:09 pm
by Guy_Fawkes
Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:04 pm
Meh, you all forget that UN is one of the most inept organizations on earth. I would have little worry about them regulating the internet in an effective way.
by Public_Domain
Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:13 pm
by Freakinoldguy
Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:18 pm
If the UN ever gets it's greasy little terrorist loving paws on the internet we'll be getting our porn and truthful news from some guy wearing a trenchcoat and working the back alley of a major city near you.

The only thing we should be discussing is what to do with the realestate revenue from United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY 10017, USA after it's been closed down and sold to Donald Trump for a new casino.
by Lemmy
Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:10 pm
The internet and other technologies allowing the free, uncensored flow of ideas is one of the great innovations in human history. This technology has already begun to move the darkest corners of humanity out of the dark ages. It will continue to help liberate the oppresed and promote human rights. So of course dinosaurs and tyrants will seek to control it, limit it or propogandize it.

In 1987, Roger Waters prophetically wrote "I'm not saying that the battle is won, but on Saturday night all those kids in the sun, wrested technology's sword from the hands of the warlords. Oh, oh, oh, tye tide is turning."
by Jonny_C
Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:31 pm
We laugh at the UN, and a lot of us agree that the UN should be turfed out of world affairs, but the damned thing has more influence and staying power than we would like.

I got the following just a few days ago from an American friend. It raises red flags for him; it does for me too.

You may be aware of this. United Nations Agenda 21. It's been going on under the radar for at least a decade. Just one globalist agenda that's been presented rather innocuous and being implemented under some new speak verbage in "innocent" language to gain acceptance.

The American perspective is well presented with this link to the American Thinker. I've read the long official U.N. Agenda 21 document. Red flags for me.

You may not agree with the American sentiment, but something to think about as far as individual rights, individual property rights and a move to remove nationalistic thinking in educating our youth of all nations. A long slow insidious parasitic process for one world governing.

I'm not a radical conspiracy nut - but very distrustful and always play "what if" games with situations such as these. The history of the 20th Century proves that things a rational rather innocent average human being would think could never happen - did happen. The Holocaust just one example.

Link:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/ ... neigh.html

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