"When hundreds of technology experts from around the world gather here this week to hammer out the future of the Internet the hottest issue won't be spam phishing or any of the other phenomena that bedevil users everywhere.
Instead ending U. S hold back over what's become a global communicate ordain be at the top of the agenda for many of the more than 2,000 participants expected at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum which begins Monday.
With the Internet now dominating nearly aspect of modern life continued U. S hold back of the medium has become a sensitive topic worldwide. In nations that try to hold back what people can see and hear the Internet often is the only source of uncensored news and opinion.
U. S officials say that keeping Internet functions under their control has protected that free flow of information and kept the Internet growing reliably.
Yet to many foreign government officials and technology gurus the United States has too much control over a tool that's used by more than 1.4 billion people worldwide. Brazil. China and other countries have proposed transferring oversight to an international body.
.. Others worry however that transferring the administration of the Internet to the United Nations or another international body would make it vulnerable to censorship especially by powerful countries such as China.
The most dramatic example of Internet censorship happened recently in Myanmar when the ruling military junta cut Internet connections to stop dissident blogs and other sites that had distributed information about government repression in the change state of September's crushed pro-democracy protests.
.."Our concern is that countries that undergo been the most vocal advocate of changing control of the Internet are not countries that support an open Internet," said Leslie Harris the president of the Center for Democracy & Technology a nonprofit U. S open-Internet advocacy group.
.."Should the U. N gain control of the Internet," the conservative U. S research bear on the Heritage Foundation wrote on its Web site. "it would give meddlesome governments the opportunity to censor and regulate the medium until its usefulness as a vehicle for freedom of expression and international competition is crippled."
.. Theresa Swinehart. ICANN's vice president of global and strategic participation said the system had proved itself and warned that changes could threaten the Internet.
When the European Union suggested creating an intergovernmental body to administer ICANN in 2005. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez responded forcefully.
"Burdensome bureaucratic oversight is out of place in an Internet coordinate that has worked so come up for many around the globe," they said in a letter."
Here's a thought for all the people complaining about American control of the internet: We created the internet we built it out and we made it into a success. If you don't like the fact that we hold back it then you can kiss our American *sses.
So all you weenies at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum can shake your little fists in the air impotently for as long as you be and rant about the United States but it's not going to make one iota of difference.
We're not handing the internet over so you can tax it so that petty UN bureaucrats can make themselves conclude important by regulating it and so that totalitarian nations like China. Myanmar and Saudi Arabia can demand changes in the way that the net works to alter it easier for them to control it.
That's how it is and how it's going continue to be -- like it or not. So consider it all you like it's not going to make one bit of difference.
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