U.S. to lose control of internet?

[Skud]

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...-internet?lite

Interesting article. No time to finish it, but so far saw that a meeting in Dubai could give us the boot as sole manager.

[goldenfooler]

interesting article.
It will be interesting to watch.

[Trooper110]

I'm pretty sure we've already said that no matter what the UN does we're not turning over control.

[Duke{CLR}]

Just like we lose our liberties here, they exploit an situation to angle their way in.

"The most lethal threat to Internet freedom may not come from a full frontal assault, but through insidious and seemingly innocuous expansions of intergovernmental powers," he wrote. "Scores of countries led by China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and many others, have pushed for, as then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said almost a year ago, 'international control of the Internet' through the ITU."

I don't really understand what all this means but if Russia, China and Iran are for it then I'm against it.

How might ITU change the way the Internet works? No one knows, of course, but there are obvious reasons for concern. Chinese officials have repeated stated they want an Internet where users must register by IP address, effectively ending anonymity and, perhaps, Internet-based uprisings.

McDowell warns that Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan asked the U.N. General Assembly to create an “International Code of Conduct for Information Security” to mandate “international norms and rules standardizing the behavior of countries concerning information and cyberspace.” Even ITU’s head of corporate strategy, Alexander Ntoko, raised eyebrows earlier this year in Cancun when he predicted that anonymity online would end.

[DougBob]

Nope!

[juneau]

Can't say i'd heard of this. Going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

[glasscasket]

china just wants to do bad things with it.

[Skud]

china just wants to do bad things with it.

And Russia, Iran, etc. Folks have been clambering for that superpower crown forever...doubt we'll be able to hold off the world forever (especially while cutting education the way we are).