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by neil higgins 1 view

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I see the US is refusing to hand control of the internet over to the UN,even after a plea from the EU on behalf of developing countries.Read more here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4296646.stm

"We will not agree to the UN taking over the management of the internet," said Ambassador David Gross, the US coordinator for international communications and information policy at the State Department.
Quite right too.As world leader on net control,why should the US hand over to a body that can't even agree on the size of office paper clips,let alone understand anything about domain names and servers.They probably think file-sharing is the preserve of office clerks.As a Brit,I applaud David Gross for standing up to the potential bullying tactics of a conference on the matter this November in Tunisia

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by stress junkie

I've always said if it works don't fix it. I've had to add a lot of caveats, disclaimers, and exceptions to that philosophy over the years but it's still a good principle. All things considered the US has done an adequate job of administering the Internet. I doubt that an international committee would do any better.

by jdclyde

they can just go make their own internet like we did!

The UN should not be in control of anything, let alone the internet.

Where is there ANY incentive to the US to give up the control over the powerful product that the US developed? Sure, there have been additions and contributions from all over the globe, but not enough that we would give this away like we did the Panama Canal (thanks loser Jimmy Carter)

by tony hopkinson

You gave away the suez canal as well, course that wasn't yours, so it was probably less of a domestic concern.

by jdclyde

when you try to buy influince in the world.

Too bad it is just taken for granted everytime and ends up with very little good will coming back our way. That and the top dogs in the governments skim off most before it reaches the common man anyways.

Need to stop trying to show how grand we are by giving stuff away.

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