[governance] U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns

Divina MEIGS divina.meigs at orange.fr
Sun Jun 3 08:01:42 EDT 2012




Le 03/06/12 11:10, « Louis Pouzin » <pouzin at well.com> a écrit :

> 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 ?
> 
> This proposition may be reversed.
> 
> 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.
> 
> - - -
> 
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>> 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
>> were tired to hear before bringing CIRs to the IGF table in 2007... The same
>> folks, the same terrifying arguments.
>> 
>> 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!
>> 
>> --c.a.
>> - - -
>> 
>> On 05/31/2012 11:25 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
>>> >
>>> > U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns
>>> >
>>> > A U.N. summit later this year in Dubai could lead to a new international
>>> > regime of censorship, taxes, and surveillance, warn Democrats,
>>> Republicans,
>>> > the Internet Society, and father of the Internet Vint Cerf.
>>> >
>>> > 
>>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57444629-83/u.n-takeover-of-the-internet-mu
>>> st-be-stopped-u.s-warns/?tag=nl.e703
>>> >
> 
> 
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