[governance] The UN Threat to Internet Freedom

[Anja Kovacs]

A comment on the article earlier posted by Renate, further shedding some
very interesting light on Mr. McDowell's agenda:

FCC first FUD at the idea of a UN-controlled Internet

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119481-fcc-fires-fud-at-the-idea-of-a-un-controlled-internet

Best,
Anja

On 23 February 2012 14:40, Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 17:17, Renate Bloem (Gmail) <
> renate.bloem at gmail.com> wrote:
> *The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom<http://geint.alwaysdata.net/en/simplenews/statistics/click?p=eNoBtVwwSv9zOjE3MjpcIrFV8z12NHAokjS2x0lizsFqF-HYYVeBMB2KxUk3QaoMEGzxN7kzLYAhQITC9dN5I5VvcfVra2e692vocuTJdVwitX1smrH1EcNWcAPQgsL-bgf7aGN96qlFVVJCHFd2zThRSpt_voC_9Q3KK-Um6N1PbwMCEvVB6VtDfOp-n72boOwkaFR_Msuq1L5FFvpcIpqwtJQELqxkzWh7rI3w8gEOrRhJFPN-zr98mUi_8VwiO2zAWHU,&h=eNortjI2slJKM080SEo1skg1T0tJNjMytTA0TDE1MkozNbYwTE61TFGyBlww4HkKxA,,>
> *
>
> *By Robert M. McDowell, commissioner of the Federal Communications
> Commission*
> The Wall Street Journal - 21 February 2012
>
> - - -
>
> We heard that hackneyed slogan quite a few times since 2003.
> It is typically sung by some republican representative, the party pushing
> SOPA, PIPA, ACTA.
> Double tongue as usual.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._McDowell
>
> Robert M. McDowell was first appointed to a seat on the Federal
> Communications Commission by U.S. President George W. Bush and unanimously
> confirmed by the Senate in 2006.
>
> Commissioner McDowell has been an outspoken critic of net neutrality
> rules, casting a dissenting vote based on four primary concerns: 1) Nothing
> is broken in the Internet access market that needs fixing; 2) The FCC does
> not have the legal authority to issue net neutrality rules; 3) The rules
> are likely to cause irreparable harm; and 4) Existing law and Internet
> governance structures provide ample consumer protection in the event a
> systemic market failure occurs.
>
>
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Dr. Anja Kovacs
The Internet Democracy Project

+91 9899028053 | @anjakovacs
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