[liberationtech] UN Body Wants Control over Internet Governance

[Doug Schuler]

I'm a little sorry that I passed this along….

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/technology/debunking-rumors-of-an-internet-takeover.html

The absence of a link to the document should have been the tip off.

-- Doug



On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:

> Hi André,
> Have you read the ITU's proposal? Would appreciate your insight.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> NK
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:32 PM, André Rebentisch <tabesin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 12.11.2012 17:12, schrieb Nadim Kobeissi:
> > "Experts claim that political and religious websites could disappear
> > if the Federal Government backs a plan  to hand control over the
> > internet to the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU)...
> >
> > This sounds pretty bad, I've been hearing about this proposal for a
> > while and now it's making the news.
> 
> With sloppy claims of "experts". They're genius.  Get back to me when
> they start making lamp shades of babies.
> 
> André
> 
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Douglas Schuler
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