theregister.co.uk — In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet. The US is holding tight onto the root zone file still.
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thezorchJul 27, 2006
The UN should have authority over the Internet and have it declared Internationally Neutral, thus as a result all those laws the US passed banning this and banning that online would automatically become null-and-void! No nation would be able to pass any laws restricting anything because they wouldn't have any authority to govern anything on the Internet without going through the UN first. And the way the UN works if anything was done it would take decades to put into place anyway.
atomic1fireJul 27, 2006
what if they were controled by scumbags in other countrys
ubermensch423Jul 27, 2006
so mod me up then!
thorsethJul 27, 2006
How would you know - does ICANN have open meetings?
demagogueJul 27, 2006
thats the funniest thing Ive seen all day
theclawJul 28, 2006
This is a huge error. Our nation is the longest surviving democracy in the world. We are the most trustworthy nation in the world with respect to freedon of the press. The Internet is our asset. DARPA created it. The rest of the world is privledged to connect to it. Let's remember that the US is the pillar of free market capitalism. Let's forget about bowing down to the worlds corrupt govenments and dictators.
johnboiwaltuneJul 30, 2006
"Let's remember that the US is the pillar of free market capitalism."Well that's the problem, they want to make as much money as they can off the internet. So that leads to multi-tiered internet where you have to have huge money to reach a wide audience. It totally kills the freedom of the average person to reach the world. So many voices will be silenced and only the interests of rich corporations will be heard (just like on TV and in the newspapers now).Sharing control of the internet with other nations is beneficial. That way one single nation can't f**k it up. Right now the U.S. is in the position to ruin the internet, because of its control.