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more on Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the Internet
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:21:31 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:15:16 -0800 From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> [Note: This comment comes from reader Dave Hughes. DLH] At 9:04 -0700 12/8/03, Dave Hughes wrote:
From: "Dave Hughes" <dave () oldcolo com> To: <dewayne () warpspeed com> Subject: RE: [Dewayne-Net] Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the Internet Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:04:35 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the Internet"The world should be grateful to Uncle Sam for creating the Internet," said Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, a Jordanian businessman who is vice chairmanofthe United Nations' Information and Communication Technology TaskForce.But, he said, it is time for the rest of the world to have a largervoicein Internet governance.Grateful, my b***! It was INVENTED in the US, and not 'by' Uncle Sam - i.e. the US government. It just paid for the research bills. Why should ANY other governments have a 'voice' - which is just AKA for 'control' of the Internet? That's the real international goal. CONTROL! Its enough that the US Government has its own nose into the Internet. I wouldn't trust China, Cuba, France, Iran, Zimbabwe any more to 'control' the Internet root servers any more than I would the US Congress. <snip>Icann's role is limited to technical matters like the format ofInternetaddresses, Mr. Twomey said. "If governments think they can really findaplace to discuss spam and child porn and e-commerce, we would probably welcome it," he said. "These things are not in our charter - it is not what we do. So we want to assure everyone involved that we are not standing in the way."Amen. But not in ICANN. As I said at least 20 years ago (my original quote technically updated here for those youngsters who don't remember what 'BBS's, or Fidonets, or UUCP were) when global, affordable, individual Internet communications first started spreading: Benjamin Franklin would have been the first Linux user. Thomas Jefferson would have first circulated drafts of the Declaration of Independence on a moderated mail-list. Tomas Paine would have first published 'Common Sense' on a Blog. I don't want any foreign Kings George treading on my long-ago ARIN assigned ISP Class C Address Space! We must continue to have absolute freedom of Internet space and the all the electronic speech that goes with it! Dave Hughes dave () oldcolo com
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