UN Official Says UN Not Taking Over Internet 104
kaufmanmoore writes "Hamadoun Toure, the new head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union says that he does not plan to take over governance of the internet and leave it up to groups like ICANN. In his statement he says that the ITU will instead focus on bridging the digital divide, internet security and standardize broadband communications. When asked about Chinese censorship Toure said that issue is beyond the mandate of the ITU."
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It's all black and white to the UN, two dimensional rather than three, and there are so many levels of ubiquity, ambiguity, and abstraction that they do and will continue to fail to see.
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Or it arises when the UN disagrees with what America wants... just like all the France bashing that has arisen since 2003.
(with a french accent) Hehehe mes amis les americains, I hate to say "we told you so", but... have fun in Iraq. And now you want to send in MORE troops? You reinforce successes, not failures. Strategy 101.
The US is always very quick to get offended by anyone who disagrees with the US. Their foreign policy is built on it. Oh, feel free waste a mod point to mod me troll my American friends, I have plenty more karma - and it will just prove my point
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If TLD's are such an issue, let them have their own DNS system. No one is forcing anyone to use ICANN or even IANA.
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The UN acted during the Korean War because the Soviet Union didn't show up to vote. Hardly a ringing endorsement.
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And you cant have real peace till somebody wins.. thats the problem with the UN, they never win.. they just sit in the middle for a time then leave and the original parties go back to war.
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Because peace keeping is a lose-lose situation for the U.S... if they get involved, you will bitch about "U.S. Imperialism"... if they don't get involved, you will whine "Why doesn't the U.S. do anything to help".