House to examine plan for United Nations to regulate the Internet
By Brendan Sasso – 05/26/12 08:10 AM ET
House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the United Nations more control over the Internet.
The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, and would give the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) more control over the governance of the Internet.
It’s an unpopular idea with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress, and officials with the Obama administration have also criticized it.
“We’re quite concerned,” Larry Strickling, the head of the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said n an interview with The Hill earlier this year.
It is funny that the main sponsors of the UN resolution to have tighter controls on the are the countris that have basically no freedom of the internet – even facebook and twitter are controlled in these countries and Skype is now being bugged by them because Microsoft sold the codes to these governments so they could isten in to conversations and record them for prosecutions. The UN is walking a very thin line here and they need to back off
The UN is a joke.
The real question is why do we now give them ANY type of real authority, rather than force them to stick to their original raison d’être… busy work and harmless self-aggrandizing