United Nations could get more control over Internet

[Derrick]

United Nations may get more control over Internet

U.S. lawmakers will delve on Thursday into an international debate on whether to hand more control of the Internet to the United Nations, a move many fear would turn it into a political bargaining chip for censorship and global taxes on Web companies...

[zamicro]

Of course the US government want to keep as much of the control to themself... Why share it with other nations?

[tortured]

“The votes of governments would be traded for considerations that have nothing to do with the Internet. That political horse trading is the hallmark of inter-governmental bodies”

This bothers me.

[cybershark]

Of course the US government want to keep as much of the control to themself... Why share it with other nations?

You mean a nation like the Chinese? I see a heavily filtered net coming when the authoritarian countries have a say.

[Mouse]

I'm wondering why the internet must be bound to politicians at all? Why can't we have an independent group? With members from anywhere in the world that at the very least were all engineers that have worked on internet technologies at some point in their careers.