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Renegade:
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
-TaoPhoenix (December 05, 2012, 06:23 PM)
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Thank God.
The Internet in the control of the UN is absolute Orwellian tyranny. The UN is nothing less than purely Satanic. And I mean that in the worst possible way.
I love Slayer, but compared to the UN? They're about as Satanic as a Cheeto is a nuclear bomb.
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.
:-\
-40hz (December 06, 2012, 08:23 AM)
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You are far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far more optimistic about the UN than I am.
My opinion is pretty much orthogonal in almost every way. The UN has been very effective in instituting its Satanic tyranny and socialist/fascist policies of destruction and rape. It's a long term game for the UN, and they're doing very well in bringing about their sickness.
The UN is set up as an organization to bring about complete world tyranny and misery.
Do a quick search on Agenda 21.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=agenda+21
These sickos think that vitamins should be by prescription, and that dosages should be far below any kind of nutritional value.
UN = Evil. Not "differently evil". Pure evil.
("You" here is the generic "you" or "one".)
If you start looking into the UN in greater detail, you will vomit. If you don't vomit, you didn't look into the UN, but rather just tried to get some sort of self indulgent satisfaction. It is not possible to peer into the Abyss and not have it affect you.
Any time that the UN does any "good", they are advancing a different agenda that is utterly Satanic and evil.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE... Do not believe me. Look into this for yourself. Doubt everything I say. Call me a liar. Tell me that I'm a crank/kook/nut/whatever. But do look into it for yourself.
While I think that the current US govt./system is broken/evil, it pales in comparison to the UN. I'm very glad that some semblance of sanity prevailed, and that the US told the UN and ITU to piss off.
The Internet under UN control will be the end of freedom. They will try to "protect" people... It won't work... Anytime someone wants to protect you... mass graves follow. Simple lesson in history.
TaoPhoenix:
Call me a liar. Tell me that I'm a crank/kook/nut/whatever. -Renegade (December 06, 2012, 09:16 AM)
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Modern Media sez: "Yay, we Like this part! (Like us on Facebook!)"
But do look into it for yourself. -Renegade (December 06, 2012, 09:16 AM)
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"Modern Media sez, "Aw $hit, this part takes work! Nah, let's go to the bar and go back to part 1, now armed with drinks!"
40hz:
^Oh man! The Phoenix is on a roll! That's twice he's made me give my age away saying "right on!!!" to something he's posted this week. :Thmbsup: ;D
IainB:
This guy makes relevant points and sooo well too:
Beware Godzilla Sleeping: The ITU's Internet Fiasco
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
December 14, 2012
Beware Godzilla Sleeping: The ITU's Internet Fiasco
A mainstay of science-fiction and horror films is the monster that you're led to believe has been vanquished, but reappears in even more horrific form (sometimes bringing along "friends" as well) in the final scene, or the sequels, or often both.
Godzilla appears to sink back into the sea to leave a battered Tokyo in peace, but he's merely snoozing, dreaming happy dreams of future destruction.
It's worth keeping Godzilla in mind as we scan reports of the ITU's new telecom treaty, which despite a glowing ITU press release was quite properly not signed by the U.S. and many other countries, rendering the entire exercise not even a Pyrrhic victory for the ITU.
The result is that we stand today regarding the open Internet in much the same place we stood a couple of weeks ago before the ITU's WCIT meeting in Dubai even began.
But like Alice in Through the Looking-Glass, we had to do an awful lot of running to end up very close to where we started. And while this can be celebrated in the short run, in the long run it is a very worrisome place to be.
Virtually all of the dangerous dynamics that we've talked about many times in the past -- which led us to this point -- still remain in play.
The existing DNS (Domain Name System) continues to be a focal point of contention. ICANN's escalating mismanagement of the Internet's naming resources, culminating in their extortionist, damaging, and nightmarishly mutating gTLD expansion scheme -- designed to enrich the existing domain-industrial complex -- has driven a stake through the heart of any possible global cooperation in this area.
The DNS has been warped from a simple addressing tool into a truncheon of copyright and censorship enforcement -- with the U.S. leading the way with both related police actions without normal due process, and the insane filings of millions of often hilariously inaccurate takedown demands with Google and others, made all the worse since there usually are no effective penalties for false takedown filings.
Governments around the world continue to eye the Internet and the open communications it fosters to be primarily a threat, with its technology ripe for surveillance, and its users to be controlled, censored, flogged, imprisoned, and even worse. The ITU's newfound fetish for DPI -- Deep Packet Inspection -- makes the wet dreams of tyrants and others in this sphere all the more explicit.
These dynamics are continuing going forward. The risks of Internet censorship, fragmentation, and other severe damage to the Internet we've worked so hard to build will continue to be exacerbated, despite our holding the ITU pretty much at bay this time around.
It's not as if better paths forward have not been suggested in the past. But in answer to most such suggestions, the response has usually been fear of tampering with the status quo, tied to concerns that any changes might end up being worse than the de facto situation in which we find ourselves today.
But as we've now seen with dramatic clarity, the current situation is not likely to be stable in the long run. It is in fact highly unstable, and the risks of this instability ripping the Internet apart in fundamental ways are now worse than ever.
In the past we've talked about the possibility of creating new, purpose-built multi-stakeholder organizations to better serve the entire Internet community -- not just the relatively few lucky entities currently suckling the bulk of the bucks from the DNS gravy train.
Alternatives to the existing DNS -- secure, fully distributed systems for Internet naming and addressing -- such as IDONS and others -- have already been proposed, and could potentially eliminate billions of dollars in associated waste, while simultaneously ending the kinds of naming and DNS abuse problems that now seem synonymous with the existing DNS ecosystem.
Pervasive Internet encryption systems -- that would make Internet connections routinely far more secure from attacks and surveillance abuses -- are possible but resisted, often in concert with much the same kinds of arguments that tyrants have spouted since the dawn of civilization.
The despicable behavior of ITU leadership at WCIT is but a shadow of what the future may be like, unless we seriously take proactive actions now to protect the global, open Internet -- and the open access to information and communications that it engenders -- against those forces who would turn the Net into a tool of political, economic, and other forms of oppression.
The Internet Godzilla may be heading off to sleep for now. But he'll be back, along with his brethren and multitude of minions as well.
And if we haven't prepared, if we haven't taken action by then -- woe to us all.
--Lauren--
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TaoPhoenix:
From the "It's not dead, it's resting" dept:
http://acta.ffii.org/?p=1702
"ACTA Gets Death Certificate In Europe" (Slashdot's title)
(Rather abbreviated quote)
"With the withdrawal of the ACTA referral to the court this second change for ACTA is now impossible. ACTA is fully dead in the EU.
As Switzerland intended to follow the EU, ACTA may be dead in Switzerland as well. Other countries may still ratify ACTA."
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