The U.N. wants to take over...

[Swifty_Johnson]

the internet.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050715/D8BBO8U00.html

Let's pray that doesn't happen.

Swifty

[Roscoes_C&W]

Will this interfere with my access to free quality amateur porno? I love hot little amateur girls making their first porno.

[Aelfwine]

I read it and I don't see anything to be all that worried about. I'd be alot more worried if the religous right exerted their control over the internet.

[Roscoes_C&W]

All this internet talk is getting me horny.

[Aelfwine]

All this internet talk is getting me horny.

Is it the internet talk or is it just Swifty getting you hot? I saw you hitting on it in another forum here.

[Noleader]

The internet has been managed fine by the US. My thoughts on it are if it is not broken don't try to fix it.

[Swifty_Johnson]

I read it and I don't see anything to be all that worried about.

Be worried about the U.N. deciding how IP addresses are divided, and the U.N. running all the main hub links around the world. You know how corrupt the U.N. is, they can keep their hands off the internet.

Swifty

[Noleader]

Other thing that should be noted is that the Internet was created and grown in the US. If was not until long after that internet was first discovered that the world started to use it. If it was made within the US and grown within the US then it only seems correct that it remains controlled by the US.

[Post]

By that logic, phone use should be regulated by the US, too.

[MickeyFinn]

Yeah, but by that logic, the radio should be regulated by the gov't too. Wait a minute...

[Post]

Radio isn't regulated by a government the moment the broadcaster isn't in that government's jurisdiction. When I was in Israel, I had a friend who worked for a radio station that broadcasted from a boat literally feet away from Israel's jurisdiction, and therefore, they could play stuff that the government wouldn't allow.

[Noleader]

If a international phone company wants to use lines on US soil to offer service to folks in the US it is regulated by the US Government.

We never said they could not setup their own Internets... Just if they want to use the one our government made when they better come to accept the fact that we manage it.

[Post]

"If a international phone company wants to use lines on US soil to offer service to folks in the US it is regulated by the US Government."

The problem isn't the regulation of stuff on US soil. It's the regulation of stuff on a worlwide scale. Of course we have the right to regulate stuff that happens here. That doesn't apply to stuff that happens overseas, though. Even if we started it. Just like phone lines.

[Figtoria]

Actually - we get the phone. Alexander Graham Bell developed the phone in Brantford, Ontario. I've been to his house. :p


By that logic, phone use should be regulated by the US, too.

[Noleader]

"If a international phone company wants to use lines on US soil to offer service to folks in the US it is regulated by the US Government."

The problem isn't the regulation of stuff on US soil. It's the regulation of stuff on a worlwide scale. Of course we have the right to regulate stuff that happens here. That doesn't apply to stuff that happens overseas, though. Even if we started it. Just like phone lines.

Although this is going to sound like I am talking down to you I need to ask, Do you know how the Internet works?

The folks overseas can place regulation on what gets though to their users at the ISP level. This ensures they can control how their people use the internet. That is where it is like the phones.

Now unlike phones the Internet uses something called root servers to store the Name --> IP Address converting, along with managing IP Address information. As new DNS servers come online they tag the root servers to collect information on what is what. The fact that the US designed and started the internet means we as a nation should have sole right to the root servers.

We still allow the world their right to regulate their aspect of the Internet but we control our property (that happens to be the backbone of the internet).

[Swifty_Johnson]

The main issue right now is IP address range. That is how we control the internet today, and the U.S. hogs a lot of of IP address range now. If the U.N. got control, they could strip IP addresses from U.S. companies and hand them other to 3rd world countries (all in the name of fairness). It would cause major headachs.

Swifty

[Post]

Then what regulation are they wanting? Censorship stuff, or different?