The Internet

Since when did the UN want control over things like the Internet?

I am all for an international body overseeing the web. But the UN? I don't have a lot of faith in them. The purpose behind the UN seems noble. But over the years, it's become really toothless in a lot of the matters it faces. Even the success of it's outreach programmes on children, education and poverty has lain more on the separate bodies operatin it, rather than the UN per se.

"We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet," said Ambassador David Gross, the U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy at the State Department. "Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable." Many countries, particularly developing ones, have become increasingly concerned about the U.S. control, which stems from the country's role in creating the Internet as a Pentagon project and funding much of its early development."

I think we've come a long way from the Pentegon thingie. The WWW has, for all intents and purposes, grown out of it's initial project so much so that it is primarily, now, a global resource. Much like the air we breath, really.


Besides, do we really want to entrust this to the bloody UN?