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

[Norbert Bollow]

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.

Good point. It may well be appropriate to classify this warning as
pure propaganda (aimed at terrifying people into staying away from
any true debate on CIR governance that might result in a reduction
of US power). In that case, if there are any (more that superficial)
similarities between what is being warned about, and in what actual
ways the public interest (as seen from an international perspective)
is threatened by what might plausibly happen at WCIT, those
similarities would be purely coincidental.

Greetings,
Norbert

> On 05/31/2012 11:25 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
> > 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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