This week's UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society promises to be interesting in a high-geek-factor way. Regardless of how propeller-headish the subject is, the outcome of this conference could potentially have a dramatic impact on the Internet we know and love.
As previously mentioned here, most of the rest of the world is not too crazy about the amount of control the US has over the Internet. While I can see their point, there are two compelling factors that cause me to not share their opinion:
1. The US paid for and did the original R&D that led to the Internet.
2. The US has been a pretty decent steward of the Internet, far better (IMHO) than some enlightened regime like China, Iran, North Korea, etc.
Our massive news staff here at CIT (ooh, my own acronym) will be keeping an eye on the results of the summit. Stay tuned.
2 comments:
The first reason may have some reason. It is a reason of Property, Law & Order
The second of course not. US prety decent, ok, if you compare you with dictatorships. But you went to Irak without asking nobody, just because of your economý, so don't try to give lessons to the world. It's too late.
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"...you went to Irak without asking nobody, just because of your economy..."??
Dude, are you serious?
Let's take a deep breath and remember that, prior to the invasion, the UN and just about everyone else believed Saddam had chemical weapons and was working on nukes. Obviously, it turned out to be not completely accurate (although not completely INaccurate either), but that's what we all believed at the time.
It had nothing to do with our economy.
I guess short-term memory loss doesn't just occur in the US.
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