US to oppose plans for UN control of the internet

The US has confirmed it will resist efforts to put the internet under the control of the UN.



























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 I won't lie, this comment made me laugh.
But seriously, the intenet is not a resource which can be owned or controlled by one organisation, people need to stop thinking of the internet as an object and they will realise why it cannot be owned.


well there doing a good job in Syria, let them have it...


I dont know which is more dangerous America or satan.


The internet needs one thing, and one thing alone to function impeccably, the sanctity of free speech. Now, say what you will about the US, and I will and do say many many things about the US, they value free speech above and beyond every other nation on Earth.
Putting it under the UN is dangerous, one security council member is a repressive dictatorship while the other is a mafia state owned by an ex-kgb thug, while powerful lobbies are operated by religions and one repressive monotheism in particular (i'm sure you don't need me to tell you which one) which is even now trying to pass a UN mandate which would make it illegal to use the name of their faith in the same sentence as the words: human rights violation. None of these powerful UN forces give a damn for free speech and many actively attempt to sabotage it wherever and whenever they possibly can. In this, at least for the moment we will do well to trust in the US.
Signed, a Welshman.


I don't think so, I don;t want the UN, or US dictating internet law in Canada. We are a sovereign nation and can take care of ourselves.



well lets hope they do then we can all switch off and totaly black out communications then everyone will be poor nobody will even care whats going on, that would suit me just fine i would defo switch it off, and go do something less boring instead, imagine the state that would get these greedy self obsessed lunatics, they would all pull there hair out from bordoem.

it will be like cb radio as soon as it was legal nobody used it and went to something else which is what will happen to the internet , its already become a burden with the amount of fraud and also the amount of spyware you keep having o get rid off ,i cant actualy see it lasting.