The UN's Desire to Control the Internet

[Minuteman]

Read about it here (http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2712.shtml)

[Anasazi]

The internet is the most revolutionary invention since moveable type and the greatest enemy of totalitarianism - since all governments automatically matasticize toward greater and greater control as is their nature a collision between the free exchange of ideas (the uncovering of facts) and governments desire to control what is allowed to pass between individuals (and out of their control) is inevitable.

There will be no relenting on the efforts to rein in the free flow of information.

[Minuteman]

Good points Anasazi.

The Internet is similar to the pamphlets of the 1700's. When England could control the press in America many ideas were exchanged by pamphlets that the people distributed amongst themselves. Most people are familiar with some of the more famous pamphlets such as Common Sense but there were 1,000s more. They served the purpose of today's blogs, private websites and forums such as these. Kind of a manual Internet if you will. After the war ended freedom of the press was restored and the writing of pamphlets died out.

Are the people of today strong enough to stop THE STATE from controlling the Internet? Especially the UN? I doubt it...

[Antlurz]

...........and now they are screaming about Google giving out "free" information which they think should be taxed and charged for.

All of europe is dumber than a day old :niggah:

[Not_Whistlin_Dixie]

The Beltway big shots want this too.

Hillary Clinton (after Matt Drudge broke the Monica story) said that the internet needs "gatekeepers." She said that something needs to be done to make website operators "accountable" to (apparently) the government.

Geraldine Ferraro, a former and unsuccessful Democratic candidate for vice-president, stated quite baldly that "we've got to get this internet under control."

George W. Bush's campaign committee sued the operator of a parody website that ridiculed Mr. Bush's campaign. (I saw the site; there's just no way an intelligent person could have believed it was the real Bush site.)

Mr. Bush himself said, in reference to this episode, that "there ought to be limits to freedom."

They passed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reform" law. Now, the FEC is using that statute as a basis to formulate regulations to impose McCain-Feingold registration requirements on bloggers whose content could be construed as supporting or attacking specific candidates.

I don't expect Washington to fight this UN power grab. I suspect that our domestic political class secretly approves of it.