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Hanging By A Web.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Cyberspace: Since its beginning, the Internet has proved a supercharged way to advance liberty. That's enough for some governments to want to take control of it away from the U.S. They must be stopped.
These governments -- Iran and Brazil leading the charge -- feel threatened. They should. Iran's rulers show no respect for political freedom; Brazil's have little if any grasp of economic liberties.
So, with the help of the European information commissioner, these countries next month will meet in Tunisia. Their World Summit will try to enact a "model of cooperation" in which Internet governance can be internationalized.
If that sounds tame and idealistic, it's not. It very much depends on your definition of "globalization." In the aftermath of the Cold War, American businesses hailed the prospect of "going global," seeing new markets for their goods and services.
With the Internet as a prime facilitator, along with new pacts such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, freer markets keep expanding around the world. Just as important, the Internet allows the rapid exchange of information and ideas, threatening despotisms everywhere.
This economic interpretation, in which some Yankee merchants failed and many succeeded, explains why the Commerce Department, in 1998, created the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN ...
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