Senator: Keep U.N. away from the Internet
Declan McCullagh writes in C|Net News:
A new resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet.
Sen. Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota, said his nonbinding resolution would protect the Internet from a takeover by the United Nations that's scheduled to be discussed at a summit in Tunisia next month.
"The Internet is likely to face a grave threat" at the summit, Coleman said in a statement on Monday. "If we fail to respond appropriately, we risk the freedom and enterprise fostered by this informational marvel and end up sacrificing access to information, privacy and protection of intellectual property we have all depended on."
If ratified, Coleman's resolution would assure the Bush administration and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) of political support on Capitol Hill during the negotiations at the World Summit on the Information Society. Similar support has already come from both senior Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.
posted by Fergie @ 10/18/2005 05:53:00 PM
2 Comments:
Norm Coleman is the shit
Senator Coleman introduced S.Res.273:
"A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the United Nations and other international organizations shall not be allowed to exercise control over the Internet."
The resolution has been referred to committee.
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