The United Nations Internet
With all news about the Miers nomination to the Supreme Court, we fear there are many who are asleep at the switch about the United Nations Internet.
For those interested, there was an article written in August 2005 in Gulfnews.com asking, Who should control the internet?.
Their article was a preliminary for the bombshell in the Opinion Journal Online on Sunday, The World Wide Web (of Bureaucrats?). Here is a taste:
“Kofi Annan, Coming to a Computer Near You! The Internet’s long run as a global cyberzone of freedom–where governments take a “hands off” approach–is in jeopardy. Preparing for next month’s U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (or WSIS) in Tunisia, the European Union and others are moving aggressively to set the stage for an as-yet unspecified U.N. body to assert control over Internet operations and policies now largely under the purview of the U.S. In recent meetings, for an example, an EU spokesman asserted that no single country should have final authority over this “global resource.”
To his credit, the U.S. State Department’s David Gross bristled back: “We will not agree to the U.N. taking over management of the Internet.” That stands to reason. The Internet was developed in the U.S. (as are upgrades like Internet 2) and is not a collective “global resource.” It is an evolving technology, largely privately owned and operated, and it should stay that way.”
You have got to read it, or you wouldn’t believe it!
It may be time to pay a little more attention to the rest of the world, while watching the Supreme Court nomination battles.
