A proposal to place the Internet domain name system under United Nations control was recently thrown out at the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society. The United States will retain control of that particular aspect of the Internet for the immediate future.
The EU and other nations have been throwing this idea around for some time, but today's decision is the best one that the Summit could have made.
The U.N. would have created a monster bureaucracy to regulate the Internet and this would not have been a good thing.
Many do not have faith in the U.N. system of governance to trust it with so much control over a free speech medium. Remember, the U.N. treats communist nations, Islamic thug states and democracies as if they were equals when they clearly are are not.
Does anyone see a single Bill of Rights in any Islamic state, or in any communist state? Castro and Chavez do not tolerate dissent in their nations; North Korea executes political prisoners, and many less-than-democratic states imprison bloggers and reporters for expressing their opinions about the unfairness of their governments.
So, NO to U.N. control over any aspect of the Internet. Here's the story.
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