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Here's a glimpse into the *cough* workings of the United Nations and it's panel that was created to recommend how the Internet should be run in the future and we're talking Keystone Cops type mentality:
U.N. Panel Presents 4 Internet OptionsI love that part - '...Western countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses'. Here's a clue alert: the Western nations MADE the Internet; you 'developing nations' need to get your shit wired first before you start dictating policy to the nation that created the freaking Internet.BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A U.N. panel created to recommend how the Internet should be run in the future has failed to reach consensus but did agree that no single country should dominate.
The United States stated two weeks ago that it intended to maintain control over the computers that serve as the Internet's principal traffic cops.
In a report released Thursday, the U.N. panel outlined four possible options for the future of Internet governance for world leaders to consider at a November "Information Society" summit.
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Developing countries have been frustrated that Western countries that got on the Internet first gobbled up most of the available addresses required for computers to connect, leaving developing nations to share a limited supply.
And some countries want faster approval of domain names in non-English characters - China even threatened a few years ago to split the Internet in two and set up its own naming system for Chinese.
Damn....that's like Lichtenstein telling the United States how to manage it's space programs. Just beyond absurd.
Can you imagine the Internet being controlled/administered by the United Nations!?! To log onto your ISP, you'd have to obtain an official statement that clears you to obtain any and all information from the Internet, including child porn which wouldn't be blocked since some nations are a little.....wimpy when it comes to cracking down on that stuff.
Any sites you might visit would have to be cleared by a sub-committee that will have reviewed all content and officially sanctioned it as it would not offend any/all people(s) that would also be logged onto the Internet.
Any comments that you'd like to make on anyone's blog would have to be run past a censoring group that will edit/omit any portion of your comment that's deemed inappropriate or hateful to any of the UN member nations that have their sticky little fingers in this technological pie.
I mean really - does anyone really want the freakin United Nations to adinister the Internet!?! Cause if you do, then it would have 'Mongolian Cluster Fuck' written all over it.
Sorry once again for dropping the F-Bomb, but this proposal has all the makings of a Greek tragedy and the phrase seemed appropriate.
if I'm not mistaken, the United States created the Internet, CERN created the World Wide Web. The
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Mad Mikey said:
Please don't be selfish with a something that has been given to you free of charge.
< Read more in United Nations AbsurdityCERN made the internet, not "Western nations." And CERN is international, with scientists visiti
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The Other Mike S said:
As they say in Gitmo, "Fuck 'em and feed 'em dog shit". We invented it, we grew it, we bettered
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As they say in Gitmo, "Fuck 'em and feed 'em dog shit". We invented it, we grew it, we bettered it, we keep it.
If they don't like that, they can make their own. Ass wipes.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, July 16, 2005 02:23 PM ||CERN made the internet, not "Western nations." And CERN is international, with scientists visiting and studying from around the world....including 3rd world nations. Many are Chinese.
Oh, and they released it FREE AND WITH NO ROYALTIES REQUIRED to the public in 1993. Please don't be selfish with a something that has been given to you free of charge.
|| Posted by duckens, July 17, 2005 01:00 PM ||Please don't be selfish with a something that has been given to you free of charge.
You might be right about the Internet being created by CERN (I recall hearing/reading that somewhere...), but I wouldn't think that keeping the ever-so-wonderful United Nations away from it isn't 'selfish' any more that not letting the babysitter overhaul your transmission.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, July 18, 2005 10:40 AM ||if I'm not mistaken, the United States created the Internet, CERN created the World Wide Web. The Internet dates back to the 1960's as a project of the Department of Defense. The WWW wasn't created until the 80's. There IS a difference between the Internet and the WWW-- they are not as interchangeable as people like to use them, and the WWW couldn't exactly exist without the Internet to run on.
Regardless of who created it, it's been United States businesess and entrepeneurs (Yahoo!, Netscape, etc.) that have made it the widely used/usable vehicle that it is. Realistically speaking, the United States is the most likely to keep it going in its current/intended form. the URL problem has been around for years, and it doesn't just affect third world countries, as much as they'd like to make it all about them.
|| Posted by nathalie, July 18, 2005 02:58 PM ||