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So where are we with this 'Internet Governance' thing?

From Tunis, Kieren McCarthy writes in The Register:

The World Summit on the Information Society starts this Wednesday in Tunis. It will be three days in which the world's governments will decide for the very first time what should and can be done with this medium we call the internet.

But three days before that, starting midday Sunday 12 November, will begin the discussions on what is the most controversial aspect of this entire process - internet governance.

The issue is world news, stretching from the BBC to the Washington Post to the China Post. Put simply it is this: because of the way the internet came about, the US government created the institutions that have effective oversight of the internet - and it has effective control over them.

posted by Fergie @ 11/14/2005 06:28:00 AM