News UN Takeover of Internet? Some Are 'Not Amused'

More on the UN takeover from TechNews...

Twomey, reached by mobile phone outside the conference room, said: At ICANN, anybody can attend meetings, appeal decisions or go to ombudsmen, and here I am outside a UN meeting room where diplomats most of whom know little about the technical aspects are deciding in a closed forum how 750 million people should reach the Internet. I am not amused.

Paul Twomey, the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, found out what it feels like to be voiceless.
On Friday night, Twomey, who flew 20 hours to Geneva from a meeting in Vietnam to take part in a preparatory session for this week's United Nations summit meeting on Internet issues, was escorted to the exit of the meeting room by guards after participants suddenly decided to exclude observers.

The move underscores the wrath of countries that for years have been unhappy with what they perceive as their voicelessness over how the Internet is run and over U.S. ownership of key Internet resources. It also foretells the level of criticism that both the U.S. government and the Internet Corporation, or ICANN, may face at the UN meeting, one of the largest gatherings ever of high-level government officials, business leaders and nonprofit organizations to discuss the Internet's future.


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I'm not getting into this anymore. I'm just tired of the thing. The only thing I really want to know is what makes the UN think that it has the right to do this when the Internet is coordinated and led by the private sector and not any government. That's all.

 

Realistically, though, how would they go about it? Since such a large amount of internet-controlling hardware is in dissenting countries such as the U.S., how could they really affect the internet? As well, the internet isn't exactly a single body...

The U.S. essentially ignores the U.N. whenever it suits it, and it is quite likely that even if the U.N. "decides" on something, the U.S. will just ignore it.

 

You wonder why?

The UN has out-grown it's usefullness, in my opinion, the US should pull out and remove all funding to this dying "dream."

I had a nice little rant written out, but I'm prety sure that it all goes without saying: The UN has out-grown its usefullness.