Jonathan Gurwitz, a columnist with the San Antonio Express-News, has a commentary in today’s Eagle about a movement to internationalize the oversight of the Internet. The effort is a bit more legitimate than he concedes, but most Americans likely share his reaction: The people who gave us the oil-for-food program want to run the Internet?
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Oh, That would be good: “Yes, you can have that domain name, but first you must pay my brother, who has three million dollars in a bank in Nigeria, a fee so he can remove the money and pay you two hundred percent on your investment.”
Cant wait!
Why on earth does the internet need oversight?
For the same reason a bunch of tinhorn dictators rammed through a resolution calling for a UN conference on government managing the news…the internet has the potential to render a lot of governments impotent, if not irrelevant.I’d go into more detail, but if you know who I am, I wouldn’t want to be accused of self-promotion :)
It maybe a fable or it may not be?But having studied computer programming I was impessed none the less.The story go’s that that it was a small group of college students not (sorry Al) Al Gore who made the net possible.
Something like sixty five lines of code. And all bites, all informaion passes through this one computer that is guarded 24/7 buried deep in a vault. The U.S. governement has been trying for a decade to gain control of this computer and the code. But so far has failed in every court room.
It is free to use and those responsible for it realizing its power. So they mandated that No one government should have total control.
To control the computer (actually there are three computers, two are back ups)and the code. Would control the world and the future.
On this I agree, no one faction should control it. There for nor should the U.N. as they are a faction of them self. The net will go down as one of the greatest inventions of mankind. And should not be control by any.
LoL, as I said I have studied programming. My reaction when I was told this. Was as any programmer would have…SIXTY FIVE LINES! Wow!!! That is power.
Or can it be simply to come up with a standard everyone can agree with, not multiple root servers that unable to communicate with each other. Furthermore, the Third World has argued that the industrialized countries are gobbling up too many addresses, leaving too little for emerging economies.
But isn’t every good thing something “given” to us by government? This is a shocking revelation.
I think the rest of the world needs to take a minute and remember who developed the web. The UN had nothing to do with it. To turn the web over to foriegners would be a MAJOR stratiegic blunder. It’s free and open now and should stay that way. It goes back to the old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. From where I’m sitting, it ain’t broke.
WriterD–I like your posts and always look forward to what you’ve got to say.
But somebody sold you a bill of goods on this urban legend. No way is all the chatter and e-mail on the internet routed through a single computer.
The internet was created by computer programers (not students) at major tech universities so that they could send instant messages to eachother. Google “arapnet” the forerunner or the modern www.
Al Gore never said he “invented the internet.” What he said was that in Congress he was one of the leaders asking for funding and development of the internet, which he did. It was entirely accurate and the media “swift boated” him on it.
Some international organization should have more oversight over the internet. A helluva lot of spams, hacking, and viruses come from overseas and there’s nothing we can do about it because of local unconcern in the home countries.
Palestine, for instance, is a hub of intellectual piracy (DVD pirating) because the kids doing it say, “who’s going to come to this hell hole of a war-zone to arrest us?” And they’re right.
Thank you Galahad, LoL someday I will tell what I was told is the origin of the word f%ck.