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The UN fought the Internet — and the Internet won

by vavoida on 12/15/12, 7:16 PM with 3 comments

current status of countries http://www.itu.int/osg/wcit-12/highlights/signatories.html

map of the votes http://imgur.com/yCNP8

  • by rwmj on 12/15/12, 10:09 PM

    Oh boy, can we say, "it's early days"? The UN has been around for about twice as long as the internet. The UN has full time paid-up governments battling, against people who are mainly interested in downloading films from YouTube.

    The ITU has surely been around (in spirit if not in reality) since they were laying telegraph poles in the 19th century.

    And the "victor" in round 1 of this fight is the US government!

    We have so much more to do ...

  • by cynix on 12/16/12, 2:12 AM

    Why is letting the US (and hence the record labels/Hollywood) control the Internet a good thing?