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October 28, 2005
UN: Battling for Control of the Internet
We have been monitoring the UN's and EU's attempted power grab over the internet. Over at Tech Central Station, Carroll Andrew Morse explains that much more is at stake than simply changing "control" from the U.S. to a supernational body: Will the Internet become the UNTERNET?
The work of the WSIS is frequently cast in terms of the United Nations trying to take control of the internet from the United States. But the goals specified by the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) describe American control as only one aspect of the problem. The August report of the WGIG simultaneously decries "unilateral control by the United States government" and the fact that the highest levels of the internet "perform their functions today without a formal relationship with any authority". In other words, the real problem in the collective mind of the United Nations is not that the United States controls the internet, but that no one does. The shots at the United States are as much marketing as substance; it is easier to sell any program at the UN by adding generous doses of anti-Americanism.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at October 28, 2005 6:50 AM
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