Until now, the work of the U.N. negotiators pondering how to regulate the Internet has been shrouded in secrecy. But as 1,950 delegates from 193 countries gather this week in Dubai to consider 900 proposals to regulate the Internet, their game is becoming clear.
The Russian-educated head of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the U.N. body seeking to control the Internet, Dr. Hamadoun Toure says: “the brutal truth is that the Internet remains largely [the] rich world’s privilege.” He adds, “The ITU wants to change that.”
Here’s how:
The ITU wants to force companies — and eventually their users (us) — to pay for streaming video. The proposal is called “pay to stream” or “a quality based model.” According to the BBC, “This would see firms face charges if they wanted to ensure streamed video and other quality-critical content download without the risk of problems such as jerky images.”
Presumably the revenues from this Internet tax would go to building up Net infrastructure in the less developed world. And, undoubtedly, the cost will be passed onto the users throughout the world — including you!
But building up the Net’s third-world infrastructure is not the real agenda here. It’s a facade.
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In an over whelming vote of 367-0, the house voted to NOT let the UN regulate the internet.
And considering we have a military that is stronger than about the next 15 combined, nobody is going to challenge us.
Thank you. Lord!
Well, then, I'll just have to give it up.
The House is just mad that the U. N. beat them to it. They have their eyes on all that revenue, too, so don't let them lie about THIS...
The UN is trying to force it's wishes onto us and other wealthy nations, instead they should look at fixing problems in other countries.
What is becoming more clear is that the UN is just an extension of corrupt governments. Do you think these people in charge are sending nice folks to the UN? No they send the same type of scum bag politician thatruns their own country. So you now have an all star team of politicians from every country. How long before they start working towards less than ethical ends? What they are proposing is to control people through contol of information. Open internet is the only reason we have seen what is going on around the world. Without it goevernments can tell us whatever they want and we would not be able to verify or refute it.
Heaven forbid we have to return to our pre internet life.Going to libraries,waiting for the evening news,physically shopping in stores for all of our needs,etc.How did we ever survive without the internet?
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please take your 1960s flawed mindset somewhere else. Get over it.
First they take your money. Then they find other things to "regulate."
This organization wants to take control of the Internet's DNS. With that, you'll have any number of corrupt regimes with the ITU chairmanship and the ability to turn off any website that they want, for any reason.
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