A battle for the soul of the Internet

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Control ?: I have been following this story for a little while now, even did a paper on it for a school project. Consider the countries that are pushing the hardest for UN control (i.e. China, Russia, Cuba, Iran etc.) and what do most of them have in common. They all to some degree, both monitor internet usage and filter web sites that the govt deems unsuitable for their particular country. Getting the UN to take control, would help them to be able to influence whats on the web. They are resisting efforts to have language included in any document that spells out freedom of speech on the internet. So as it stands now, they naturally have no say so as to content on the web other than what they filter coming into their respective countries. And what of the UN itself...by gaining control, it could easily start taxing internet transactions to help fund telco buildouts in third world countries. Something that the third world countries themselves are asking for in not so many words as they try to close the digital divide gap. Do we really want something as dynamic and fast moving to be placed under govt control (any govt). Innovation and technological advancement would probably suffer greatly. As most govt's have a hard enough time agreeing within themselves, imagine a governing body composed of wildly different ideas & cultures trying to adopt policy to something that moves as fast and changes much faster than anything govts are used to. Remember it was and still is private enterprise that drives the internet and its advancements..It has not and does not rely on govt's to help move it along. Why do we need it now?; Posted by: wayout Posted on: 06/03/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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