Don't you know, if you control the Internet you control the world. Well either that or you can stop all the evil pirates stealing yar stuff.
Er, what is the proposal now? couldn't find it from a quick look at one of the articles.
To hand responsiblity and authority for regulating the internet to the ITU.
The ITU is a UN agency that was created to regulate the telegraph and gives each nation's government one vote each on each policy and has zero transparancy.
If accepted as the regulatory body of the internet policies effecting the internet would be decided, voted on behind closed doors and only announced once moves were made to enforce them.
Russia, China, Pakistan and a number of other internet freedom loving countries are pushing hard for the ITU to be given this authority.
And here's a piece written on wired by the head of the ITU on the subjectGovernments are looking for more effective frameworks to combat fraud and other crimes. Some commentators have suggested such frameworks could also legitimize censorship. However, Member States already have the right, as stated in Article 34 of the Constitution of ITU, to block any private telecommunications that appear “dangerous to the security of the State or contrary to its laws, to public order or to decency.” The treaty regulations cannot override the Constitution.
It makes for intresting reading.
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