UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns

benfrog writes "In a rare show of bipartisan agreement, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle warned this morning that a United Nations summit in December will lead to a virtual takeover of the Internet if proposals from China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are adopted. Called the World Conference on International Telecommunications, the summit would consider proposals including '[using] international mandates to charge certain Web destinations on a "per-click" basis to fund the build-out of broadband infrastructure across the globe' and allowing 'governments to monitor and restrict content or impose economic costs upon international data flows.' Concerns regarding the possible proposals were both aired at a congressional hearing this morning and drafted in a congressional resolution (PDF)."

You fools!

[maugle]

You all kept saying that nobody could mishandle the Internet worse than the US, and the UN took it as a challenge!

Re:UN takeover must be stopped?

[ehintz]

Ok. But, help me out here, which one is bad, and which one is worse?

Re:The US made it

[psiclops]

yeah well, TCP/IP is kinda useless without Maths. so i guess the greeks invented the internet.

Re:UN takeover must be stopped?

[Anonymous Coward]

But that's like Obama's argument for re-election, yet you'll still vote for him.

Re:UN takeover must be stopped?

[ravenshrike]

But if you get an American's CC number you can donate to him, seeing as his campaign disabled(It's turned on by default) CVN and doesn't do name verification.

Re:UN takeover must be stopped?

[tehcyder]

I'm not American, so it's fairly unlikely that I'll vote in your elections.

Just because you're not American doesn't mean you can't be patriotic and support the US!