<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">Let's suppose the internet be used by the US and her underlings for a
worldwide surveillance system, then would the US gov tolerate any form
of internet shared control ?<br><br></div>This proposition may be reversed.<br><br>Let's suppose the US gov rejects any form of internet shared control, then the internet could be used by the US and her underlings for a
worldwide surveillance system.<br><br>- - -<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca" target="_blank">ca@cafonso.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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With this bringing of the elephant to the room (in this case, the ITU)
again, USA & the associated lobbies which resist the creation of *any*
international system of Internet governance restart the old blablabla we<br>
were tired to hear before bringing CIRs to the IGF table in 2007... The same folks, the same terrifying arguments.<br>
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In the meantime, European countries already have in place a multilateral
governance system which is deciding, through different instances and
more or less coordinated bodies, quite relevant issues like
international mobile data roaming fees, net neutrality recommendations
and so on. They can, the rest of the world should not... strange indeed!<br>
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On 05/31/2012 11:25 PM, michael gurstein wrote:<br>
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> U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns<br>
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> A U.N. summit later this year in Dubai could lead to a new international<br>
> regime of censorship, taxes, and surveillance, warn Democrats, Republicans,<br>
> the Internet Society, and father of the Internet Vint Cerf.<br>
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> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57444629-83/u.n-takeover-of-the-internet-mu" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57444629-83/u.n-takeover-of-the-internet-mu</a>st-be-stopped-u.s-warns/?tag=nl.e703<br>
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