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“Internet Take Over?"
Key points of Mr. Cumming's commentary:
- The United Nations is demanding the United States
turn over all control and authority of the Internet to them.
- World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
met in December 2003 and discussed governance of Internet.
- Kofi Annan set up the Working Group on Internet
Governance (WGIG) to submit recommendations on future of Internet.
- WGIG recommends the Internet governance be turned
over to UN.
- Various nations have complaints regarding present
set up of Internet and the governance by the US.
- Real issues revolve around UN and foreign
national resentment that US controls so powerful a medium.
- Specific UN special interests seek to use
Internet for their own agendas, including Internet surveillance, use
of Internet police and establishment of domain name taxation.
- Currently, the US is refusing to turn over the
Internet, but could conditions change where the US might willingly
give up control or somehow be compelled to do so?
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