Great news coming out of the United Nations summit in Tunisia!
The nations have reached an agreement whereby the US will retain control of the internet and DNS management. However, an “Internet Governance Forum” will be formed and will meet in 2006. This group will likely have little enforcement power but will be able to influence internet policy.
CNET’s story about the deal quotes Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as saying:
The U.S. and allies such as the United Kingdom unreasonably “insist on being world policemen on the management of the Internet,” and that must change, Mugabe said.
Does anyone even listen to Mugabe? Who the heck invited him to speak his mind? Mugabe’s practice of censorship includes killing reporters in his country that write negative things about his regime. Mugabe is exactly the reason we can’t let the internet’s management leave the US.
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