Q: What do you get when you cross the UN and Kofi Annan with the internet?*
A: A 404 page that loves the Cognac and hates the Zionists.
Oh. And a pissed off Roger Simon, to boot.
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I posted, via Pamela at Atlasshrugs, an even more egregious UK Guardian article than what Roger links to.
Say hello to the EU trying a coup d’etat on the US/ICANN
I call bullshit on the last. The servers are HERE, the routers are HERE. They can only get the authority over them that we HAND them. Let’s cut off ALL traffic into/out of the US for a couple of hours..all the nameservers just kinda block all IP addressing that is not US based and see just how much these rustlers want to play hardball.
“Global resource” my ass.
Giving control of the internet to the most corrupt organization on the planet? Could this go down in history as the dumbest idea ever? Let’s see:
1) Romans allowing barbarians to settle inside the borders of the empire
2) Exiling Napoleon Bonapart to Elba, a short boat trip from the south of France
3) Custer attacking the Sioux on his own initiative (“How many could there be?”)
4) Giving the Beatles complete artistic control of the movie Magical Mystery Tour
Yup, I think this is it.
I think what you’d actually get is 2400 baud modems that cost around $12,000, pay per kilobyte connections and domain registrations costing $900 that take eighteen months to secure after they’ve gone through forty-three committees to ensure their cultural sensitivity.
But then, I’m a cynic.
TW: “standard” As in cost bloat, corruption and inefficiency is standard at the U.N.
The content of every page of every website, every blog post, and every comment would have to be pre-approved by an oversight committee staffed by representatives from such stalwart defenders of free expression as Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea. The approval process should take no longer than a few weeks, except in the case of content deemed questionable by any member of the committee. Such a determination may further delay posting until revisions are made that allow for unanimous approval by the oversight committee.
Lucky for us it’s unworkable unless the U.S. government lets them. They cannot force the U.S. to go against that pesky constitution on our own turf. If they wish to regulate the internet, they should feel free to install firewalls whereever the feed enters thier countries and filter whatever they want to filter.
Or, like Darleen suggests, cut them off. Not for a few days but how about for a few weeks or more. They can start thier own damn internet.
Also, note that half the world’s airlines run their booking systems (turing word) off servers located in Minnesota (UNISYS), and quite a few of them are in foreign countries. I’ll bet other business run off servers based in the U.S. as well. I wonder what would happen if they lost that connection?
My question for the UN/EU bureaurcrats who want control over the internet is a simple one: precisely what is it that you would want to change?
I mean, it’s not as if the US is doing a shoddy job of things. We’re not neglecting the internet. It’s not underfunded. I’d like to get these fuckers to actually state their motives… not that they ever would mind you.
I’m not sure even the US government could cede control to the UN. I think some kind of “freenet” would be possible, running in parallel to a UN controlled internet, with an alternate set of root servers, and cross-over points sending encrypted traffic only onto the UNNet.
That, or we could resurrect fidonet.
Turing word: french. No more need be said.
Beck gets the biscuit for asking the pertinent question of the day!
Why indeed? Maybe we should ask the Chinese, who with the aid of Micro-soft, Yahoo and Cisco are pressing forward in shutting down free expression on their internet web sites.
Could it possibly be that with control, they can stifle any political dissent at home and prevent the truth from getting out in a timely fashion? Could it be that they’d like to strangle the infancy of free dissemination of democratic mass expression in its cradle? It would sure make it easier to keep the lid on about political oppression or plain old fashioned corruption wouldn’t it? It would sure make it easier for the old guard to go back to business as usual. Ask Kofi.
Yeah, let’s leave the reguluation of the internet to the likes of Mugabe, Kim, Assad, the mullahs and the rest of their ilk. While we’re at it, let’s not forget those unctuous paragons of journalism like Eason Jordan and Sham Blather to tell us what they think is important.
After all, it’s all just too complex and nuanced for proles like us isn’t it? You do understand don’t you?
Q: What do you get when you cross the UN and Kofi Annan with the internet?
A: A maladjusted router-based crack whore. Or something.
Well, Tim P., everything you say is true. But
your average lefty will never be nearly as troubled by the idea of a gang of mass-murderers quite literally and directly looking for ways in which to obstruct free speech on the Net–as they surely are by the nebulous idea that because the main servers for the Internet are currently located in America, the Internet as it is must have Bush/globalization/Western/cultural imperialist/American/Orientalist/Halliburton/social injustice/Enron cooties.
Good God, did someone actually just mention FIDONet?
Nothing like a network that communicates via night time synchronization using a vast and extensive system of local phone calls.
Who is the UN’s ISP again? UU.net?
Heh.
Time for the Fercotti Brothers to pay a little visit. Accidents happen, you know – things burn…
But please, don’t inundate wilsont@un.org with complaints, he’s not responsible.
SB: ways
and means
Q: What do you get when you cross the United States over the issue of Internet control?
A: Do you really want to find out?
The EU wants to replace ICANN with ONO:UCANNT.
This new millenium is beginning to remind me of “Lord Of The Flies”. Another reason to thank God that Kerry was defeated.
Hah! I love it.
“Who will join my internet tribe?”
Not you, four-eyes.
Q: What do you get when you cross the UN and Kofi Annan with the internet?
Lewd tranzi spam. More ‘dysfunction’ ads.
Just a quick heads-up, Jeff; I’ve awarded myself all revenues generated by Protein Wisdom. In the face of my consensus, you have little choice but to get a check in the mail.
“A: A 404 page that loves the Cognac and hates the Zionists”
Is something missing from this sentence or has the Miers confirmation scrambled my brains for good?
I posted about this and a few other things here
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/kentuckydan/CommitteesofCorrespondence/index.blog?entry_id=1098127
Just recently Tarek Heggy, a man for whom I have the deepest admiration and who I consider one of the Great Minds of our Age posted an Article in
Winds of Change
I am in awe of the internet. I have access to the Greatest minds of the Ages at my very fingertips, typing on my keyboard and SOME of them who are alive today even read what I write and write back to ME!
How COOL it that? So again one might NOT be surprised at my reaction to the same Organization that brought us.
Rwanda, The Food For Oil Scandal, the Pedophile Rings in the Congo,
deciding that IT should gain control of this Bastion of Freedom of Information, Freedom of Thought , Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Communication
I’m pretty sure that when you cross the UN with the internet, you get a bunch of spam advertising hot! hot! hot! XXX exploited teen refugee action.
Ok, Sean M– that is just so wrong!!
Elizabeth,
Took me a while, too. A 404 page is an internet error page. Not all of us are geeks.
Elizabetty,
It’s only 5:30 AM here, and my head has not yet filled with the blood it needs to function. At this time of the morning, Elizabeth, Elizabetty – it’s all the same to me. Sorry
Doog
Darleen,
I have a European friend that tells me that we can get anything we want in this country just by denying phone use to those outside the U.S.
she said that if we just told the Middle East that there will be no phone activity until they themselves put an end to this bombing, then they would do it in a few weeks.
IT seems some time ago some south American country wouldn’t pay one of our big phone companies bill for some reason. So the phone company cut off service to that country. The people went nuts and the country paid the bill the next day.
She says we have all this power and we never use it.
However, you can bet a UN-run internet would have a lot more child pr0n.
Cuz, you know, if experience has taught us anything, it’s that UN employees love the kiddie sex.