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Battle for Ending Free Internet Continues With UN

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posted on Dec, 13 2012 @ 02:08 PM
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U.N. summit implodes as U.S., others spurn Internet treaty


news.cnet.com...


In a stunning repudiation of a United Nations summit, an alliance of Western democracies including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada today rejected a proposed treaty over concerns it hands repressive governments too much authority over the Internet.

"This conference was never meant to focus on Internet issues," said ambassador Terry Kramer, head of the U.S. delegation to the Dubai summit. "The Internet has given the world unimaginable economic and social benefit during these past 24 years -- all without U.N. regulation."

Delegates from the Netherlands, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, and the Czech Republic also said they could not sign the proposed International Telecommunication Union treaty, which is scheduled to be finished by tomorrow. Kenya's delegate appeared to take the same position, saying "we reserve our rights" to "go back home and do more consultations" before signing.


In case if anyone hasn't been following what is happening behind your closed doors, there is a war to control the use of the internet.

I have made a previous thread: Alex Jones - End of Free Internet.... where Alex Jones has done research on this subject.

Though I know many ATS members probably overlooked my thread simply because it's Alex Jones, he is in fact truthful in his investigation into this topic.

A snippet from my thread:


So back to the whole internet take-over by the UN....

The UN desperately wants to control the internet and to kill DNS's where your website cannot be accessed by its name (ex. Abovetopsecret.com)...this is a prison planet like in the comic books of Judge Dredd which were published in the 70's...identical world in the book and what life is like now!

Therefore, the UN wants to build a prison planet and this is where Alex think we are directly headed. Moreover, the UN members will decide what will be taken off the internet and there is already criticism to remove any bashing of the Islam religion right off the internet. So once again, there goes your free speech!

Here is a copy of the news article...you can read it below:
www.weeklystandard.com...
Nov 26, 2012
U.N. to Seek Control of the Internet

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. ...

"Proposals for the new ITU treaty run to more than 200 pages. One idea is to apply the ITU's long-distance telephone rules to the Internet by creating a 'sender-party-pays' rule. International phone calls include a fee from the originating country to the local phone company at the receiving end. Under a sender-pays approach, U.S.-based websites would pay a local network for each visitor from overseas, effectively taxing firms such as Google and Facebook.

The idea is technically impractical because unlike phone networks, the Internet doesn't recognize national borders. But authoritarians are pushing the tax, hoping their citizens will be cut off from U.S. websites that decide foreign visitors are too expensive to serve."

Arthur Herman explains "The UN's Internet Grab" here.

And even Google has already come out against the ITU.

"The ITU is the wrong place to make decisions about the future of the Internet," says Google. "Only governments have a voice at the ITU. This includes governments that do not support a free and open Internet. Engineers, companies, and people that build and use the web have no vote."

"The ITU is also secretive. The treaty conference and proposals are confidential," adds Google.

So what is the above article about? In English, it says:

- the internet will be handed over to the UN and the member Nations will decide what's taken down.
- internet taxes and new regulations are coming up and the controls
- and "Chinese style censorship" which is what the Cyber Security Act would do but Congress wouldn't pass it because it did restrict free speech.

So Alex states that Obama won't let Congress and even the intelligence committee see his secret cyber security order that he signed in secret and will be handing over the order to the UN. Can you believe this President????


Little do we pay attention when all of a sudden our right to free speech internet is taken from us by the Elite who wish to control our viewing, posting, and enjoyment of the world wide web.

I am glad that North America is rejecting the ITU proposal. I want my freedom on the internet. Nuff said. Keep fighting the Elite!
edit on 13-12-2012 by Skywatcher2011 because: added note

edit on Mon Dec 17 2012 by DontTreadOnMe because: IMPORTANT: Using Content From Other Websites on ATS



posted on Dec, 13 2012 @ 02:30 PM
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you don't need a u.n. resolution to censor or lose control of the internet; just use google.



 
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