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IainB:
If you go to the Google main search page, then you will see a line below the search box that reads:
Love the free and open Internet? Tell the world's governments to keep it that way.
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If you follow the link, then you will be taken to the Google Take Action page, where you can read about:
* What’s at stake
* What you can do
* Past actionsThen, if you want, you can follow the link to Make your voice heard.
I added my ID to the list of 2.8million (and counting) respondents.
Interesting semi-realtime map they give of the respondents.
TaoPhoenix:
From the Dept. of Hidden Agendas comes:
"House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands" ... by ... wait for it ... 397-0.
Can anyone say Hot Potato? This is the Congress that will gleefully wreck the country by letting us lose our AAA credit rating (so Bankers with short-derivative-whatevers can skim more cash) and play games with debt bankruptcy ceilings... and they can find it among themselves to vote 397-0 to keep the UN out of the internet?!
Ingredients: Barrel. Fish.
Directions: Leave in Sunlight to cure for 3 days until nice and rotten. Serve on top of legislation when they whine that they can't get consensus even though the country risks economic implosion. Serves 12 bills.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/271153-house-approves-resolution-to-keep-internet-control-out-of-un-hands
IainB:
..."House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands" ... by ... wait for it ... 397-0...
-TaoPhoenix (December 05, 2012, 06:23 PM)
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Hard to believe, but true, by all reports.
TaoPhoenix:
..."House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands" ... by ... wait for it ... 397-0...
-TaoPhoenix (December 05, 2012, 06:23 PM)
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Hard to believe, but true, by all reports.
-IainB (December 06, 2012, 01:01 AM)
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"We need to send a strong message, blah blah blah. Now if you'll excuse us, we'll go back holding our country hostage before you rudely interrupted us." :o
40hz:
..."House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands" ... by ... wait for it ... 397-0...
-TaoPhoenix (December 05, 2012, 06:23 PM)
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Hard to believe, but true, by all reports.
-IainB (December 06, 2012, 01:01 AM)
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"We need to send a strong message, blah blah blah. Now if you'll excuse us, we'll go back holding our country hostage before you rudely interrupted us." :o
-TaoPhoenix (December 06, 2012, 03:43 AM)
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Considering how feckless and ineffective (by design) the UN has been for most of it's existence, it's probably just as well.
You can't have an effective world governing body when a tiny group of players (all armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons) individually hold absolute and unchallengeable veto power over anything and everything the UN "resolves."
But then again, the UN was never set up with the intent to be a governing body. It's never been more than a public forum and debating society at the best of times. Much like the Student Councils and Student Senates in most high schools and universities. It has all the trappings of a government body - but none of the real authority.
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