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Make way for the UNternet?(Insider Report)
Pressure is mounting to hand over control of the Internet to the United Nations. On December 10, 2003, the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) convened at Geneva, under the auspices of the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The summit's chief purpose was to explore ways to bring the Internet under government control, both domestically and internationally.
According to Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, "we are seeing a clear shift away from the mid-90s when governments were told to stay away [from the Internet]. Governments have shown they are very interested in getting involved on a domestic level and now they are looking at the international level." Certain governments with an acute interest in domestic control over--and strict censorship of--the Internet, including Communist China, Egypt and Brazil, pushed hard at Geneva ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Make way for the UNternet?(Insider Report)