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UN To Be Internet Watchdog?

The more I read news pieces like this, the more I feel lucky to have immigrated to this country - truly the land of the free. It seems that the internet - that last bastion free from excessive government oversight and control might just get cracked in our life time courtesy big brother UN







I'm a third culture kid - after having lived in other countries where freedom of information and expression are struck down with brute force or bullied out because governments and powers had rightly understood that these are their greatest threats, I've appreciated a lot of what the US has to offer in terms of freedoms and human rights. Many Americans will find it hard to appreciate it the way I do unless they've lived under brute force authorities. I don't blame them... you only know the value of something when you don't have it. In the countries I've been to, if you piss off someone high up or with connections to someone high up, you can be guarenteed to face brute force - either because the law is against you or inspite of the law. 


Notice the countries spearheading this move. yeah, these are the same countries where brute force is used liberally. The UN is good...and it's also a joke because half the time, it's used as a puppet on behalf of powers that need to justify their means to an end.


I hope the USA remains that last bastion of freedom - sticking to its principles. There have been many attempts to nibble at this bit by bit. Yes, I know many people will be quick to point out it's mistakes and abuses of power but which country hasn't? yet this is a country that was built on some of the most basic and fundamental principles of human rights and every time there was a violation of those human rights, you would see people rise up based on those principles and fight tooth and nail to correct the violation of those principles.


All I've got to say to these countries and powers that are trying to use the UN to control and apply excessive oversight to the internet is




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I am almost as fearful of the UN as I am of China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Al Qaeda. Those five are easy to perceive as threats to our nation and the liberty and freedom that it represents; however, having been around for a few decades including those during the "depths of the Cold War" and having been raised in an Air Force family with a SAC command pilot for a father, I am all too aware of how the UN has become more and more the tool of those who would enslave others and/or force their controlling ideologies upon the world.

Too many who have freedom and liberty and who live under a democracy do not realize that it is possible for someone to use the very liberties and freedoms we enjoy to gradually comprmise away our rights and freedom. It may take decades to accomplish the erosion but, if they are determined, those who would enslave can patiently sand away here and then sand away there until our rights and liberties erode as surely as has the face of the Sphinx.

Thank you for the wake-up call.
Absolutely right Ralph. Sometimes the real threats are the ones that are not so obvious. And I couldn't echo your thoughts in your 2nd paragraph better. It's interesting just to observe how history repeats itself again and again and again. Maybe it's because a generation or two later, we tend to forget what our predecessors learned the hard way.
People often forget Neville Chamberlain's willingness to negotiate with Adolph Hitler and his (in)famous, "Peace In Our Time" claim shortly before Poland was invaded . . . one cannot compromise with someone who has vowed to destroy you and your society. What would the compromise be, let them beat you _half_ to death and give up your liberties and rights every other day? No, it is a black and white contrast . . . either yu do or you do not have your liberty, freedom, and rights and, if you wish to have them, then you must also take up the famous Revolutionary War statement, "Give me liberty or give me death."

I grew up in a military family and I knew many who paid in their blood for the Vietnam War portestors' right to protest that war. I always thought it was too bad that the each of the protestors didn't have to at least donate a pint of blood as a fee for their protest rallies. That might have given them something to think about.

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