Don’t Hand Over the Internet to the U.N.
Nov 16th, 2007 by Ted Pibil
Fred Thompson has added a post to his blog commenting on the idea of the U.N. taking control of the Internet. Below are some of the keypoints:
- [The U.N.-sponsored conference discussing UN-owned internet] didn’t get much attention, but as we all know, that’s how bad ideas get traction.
- But countries like China aren’t happy about U.S. control of “the tubes.” They’d rather have the U.N. run it. I wonder how the U.N. would’ve handled the situation in Burma recently when the government cut off all Internet access to all anti-government protesters…
- My hunch is that we’d see the same level of management of the Internet from the U.N. that we’ve seen when it came to peacekeeping operations in Africa. Or its management of Saddam Hussein’s “Oil for Food” program. Or its monitoring of Iran’s nuclear program.
- We shouldn’t be handing over something that works right to an institution that has difficulty doing anything right.
