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An Open Letter to the United Nations

by mnot on 7/1/24, 8:36 AM with 10 comments

  • by mnot on 7/1/24, 8:36 AM

    Today, a group of technical experts involved in the development and maintenance of the Internet and the Web, including Vint Cerf (Internet pioneer) and Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web), published an open letter calling on the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology to "uphold the bottom-up, collaborative and inclusive model of Internet governance that has served the world for the past half century" as part of the upcoming Global Digital Compact (GDC).
  • by globalnode on 7/1/24, 9:35 AM

    can i say "the internet is dead" anyway? sorry, it just seems like there are so many problems with the internet of today - top down authoritarian management may just be what we deserve for a while anyway.