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U.N. Readies Attack on Internet as Obama Dithers

RHSimard Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 9:02 AM

The Internet design deliberately avoids any kind of central control or dependence on any one, or a few, entities to function. Even what is arguably the most global service of all, the DNS, is distributed worldwide, for technical and practical reasons, yes, but in the process, impeding attempts to control it. Regimes that are succeeding at all, like Iran or China, only do so within their own borders. If the U.N. does come up with some cockamamie notion, count on the technical cognoscenti to devise a system of VPNs, obfuscators like Tor, and whatever else is needed to thwart it. So far, efforts to install "back doors" on encryption protocols like SSL, ostensibly for law enforcement but so easily abused, have been checked.. So will this.

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U.N. Readies Attack on Internet as Obama Dithers

While talk of the United States tumbling over a so-called “fiscal cliff” dominates news cycles in the nation’s capital and other major cities, on the other side of the planet, the United Nations is quietly but relentlessly pressing to take control of the Internet. It is being aided in this illicit endeavor by various totalitarian regimes, and by many smaller states that routinely use their strength in numbers to bash America.

The vehicle chosen by the internationalists for this power grab is the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), one of the many aged bureaucracies that long ago lost any degree of relevance...