From the WeeklyStandard.com:
Next week the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union will meet in Dubai to figure out how to control the Internet. Representatives from 193 nations will attend the nearly two week long meeting, according to news reports.
“Next week the ITU holds a negotiating conference in Dubai, and past months have brought many leaks of proposals for a new treaty. U.S. congressional resolutions and much of the commentary, including in this column, have focused on proposals by authoritarian governments to censor the Internet. Just as objectionable are proposals that ignore how the Internet works, threatening its smooth and open operations,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
“Having the Internet rewired by bureaucrats would be like handing a Stradivarius to a gorilla. The Internet is made up of 40,000 networks that interconnect among 425,000 global routes, cheaply and efficiently delivering messages and other digital content among more than two billion people around the world, with some 500,000 new users a day.
The internet IS and WAS a major “game changer” on the planet.
Bill O’Reilly hates it. I happen to love it: the Libertarian in me —
— for any number of reasons, not the least of which is its freedom. It’s — as yet — total and rampant freedom, within purpose.
It’s the absolute Wild West and an amazing gift — all at once — in a tumultuous rumble of staggering mayhem.
Just like human beings, it’s as good or as bad as we are.
But it’s also The Great Equalizer.
If I knew the HTML, I could have a website every bit as gorgeous, intuitive, extensive, professional, graphically intense or beautiful as that of Rolls-Royce or Exxon-Mobil or Hyundai or Fuji Heavy Industries. Sometimes the most powerful companies have the worst-looking websites.
There is, truly, great equilibrium in the internet.
It is terribly bad. Yet it is terribly good.
It deserves — it must — have its freedom protected.
BZ
Yep, but that freedom is exactly WHY they want to regulate it… if there is freedom, WE get to choose what we read/believe…
That is comPLETELY correct.
BZ
When they kill the internet there will be no outrage covered in the state run media. Unless there’s a republican in the WH when it happens. Then it will be their fault not the fault of the current administration who allowed this in the first place. Funny how that works huh?
Personally I think your site is one of the best designs out there as far as blogs go. You let me know what improvements/changes you want to make and I’ll take care of the HTML for you no problem.
First, Robert, thanks for all your help. You’ve made my transition from Blogger to WordPress painless and smooth!
And if the internet dies, then control of everything in this country soon WILL be accorded to the DEM/MSM — and we already know how truthful and unbiased they are. . .
BZ
Makes sense, we get our server running like lightening and the UN will shut us down… 🙁
But heck, Fred, we need more blue helmets in the world, eh?
BZ
I love the internet and enjoy that I can blog and post what I want and not have to worry about being censored.
This is why the government wants to get control of the net. Censorship because many of us that are conservatives or libertarians love our freedom and they want to strip it from us.
Leticia and all:
Can you think of ONE reason to place limits on the internet — other than those you indicate above?
ONE valid reason except to STOP the FREE exchange of information?
BZ