Huge, bloated, highly regulated and taxed piece of crap taking over something currently reasonably priced in a competitive market.. Yep, obamacare… and the proposed U.N. takeover of the net.
[typography font="Ubuntu Condensed" size="24" size_format="px"]U.N. to Seek Control of the Internet[/typography]
Next week the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union will meet in Dubai to figure out how to control the Internet. Representatives from 193 nations will attend the nearly two week long meeting, according to news reports.“Next week the ITU holds a negotiating conference in Dubai, and past months have brought many leaks of proposals for a new treaty. U.S. congressional resolutions and much of the commentary, including in this column, have focused on proposals by authoritarian governments to censor the Internet. Just as objectionable are proposals that ignore how the Internet works, threatening its smooth and open operations,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
“Having the Internet rewired by bureaucrats would be like handing a Stradivarius to a gorilla. The Internet is made up of 40,000 networks that interconnect among 425,000 global routes, cheaply and efficiently delivering messages and other digital content among more than two billion people around the world, with some 500,000 new users a day. …
“Proposals for the new ITU treaty run to more than 200 pages. One idea is to apply the ITU’s long-distance telephone rules to the Internet by creating a ‘sender-party-pays’ rule. International phone calls include a fee from the originating country to the local phone company at the receiving end. Under a sender-pays approach, U.S.-based websites would pay a local network for each visitor from overseas, effectively taxing firms such as Google and Facebook. The idea is technically impractical because unlike phone networks, the Internet doesn’t recognize national borders. But authoritarians are pushing the tax, hoping their citizens will be cut off from U.S. websites that decide foreign visitors are too expensive to serve.”
If the net is made up of 40,000 networks that interconnect 425,000 global routes, how would they force assent and enforce laws?
I know.
It’ll never happen. Places like China and Iraq and Iran haven’t even been able to keep information from leaking out. Can you imagine someone trying to control information globally? Unmitigated nightmare logistically.
From your lips… Because now that the u.s. is a socialist country, obama will try to comply… or be complicit in… pretty much anything the u.n. wants to do.
Or that’s my take.
People have no idea what they did when they voted him back into office… if they did….
The UN can try all it wants, but we have people in place to make sure this doesn’t happen.
Besides, they can’t even manage to agree on how to govern themselves.
That’s what happens when dictators try to decide which one will lead… they all want to!
You got that right!
And now we know why the UN remains such a clusterfuck
And why isn’t there a clusterfuck emoticon?
SHTF isn’t good enough?
SHTF is NOT good enough. lol
And we finally reached the max “reply” nest count???
Them blue helmets make mighty nice targets.
Heh… I will not ask for whom.
Fa la la la la!
Don’t know why the box isn’t bigger, but I’m sure it’s the comment css. Will I bother changing it? Probably not.
I think it’s funny that we ran out of room. It’s like we found the end of the internet or something.
It does seem to have some psychological significance.