Our Internet is Once Again in GRAVE Danger!

Folks, I've said this in a previous post, and Neal Boortz was talking about it again yesterday, but I'm going to say it one more time. In light of today's latest news in the UK Independent Online, we are truly in danger of losing control over the Internet!

From Neal's Nuze yesterday:

Sunday afternoon there was a little tease headline on Drudge. The headline said something to the effect that the United Nations was determined to gain control of the Internet followed by the word "developing" This morning I went right back to Drudge to see what he found. The headline was gone. The headline may be gone, but the threat remains. There's another story out there today that should run side-by-side with the "UN Control of the Internet" story. An AFP story today leads "Dark days are ahead for American newspapers, as sales tumble, a warp-speed news culture leaves lumbering dailies behind and scandals over flawed reporting taint heavyweight titles."

The story goes on to say that U.S. newspapers are battling an explosion in online information. That would be the Internet. So ... combine the two stories and what do you have? You have the United Nations, an organization that is not now and has never been friendly to the United States, working diligently to gain control of the system that more and more Americans are relying on for their daily news. If you don't see an extreme danger in this you are either brain dead or a Democrat.

Now, from the UK Independent online today, further evidence is provided:

Over the next three days a United Nations summit, in the unlikely setting of Tunisia, will attempt to thrash out the future of the internet.

More than 40 world leaders, including Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, are set to attend, and the ownership of the World Wide Web itself is at stake. What the delegates won't discuss is the creeping spectre of censorship.

What began as a military research project at the Pentagon has exploded into the most powerful network in the world and an entity upon which the global economy increasingly relies. Its future character is now in question.

At present, the closest the internet has to a governing body is an obscure American, non-profit corporation called Icann. This quasi-independent body has, for years, quietly regulated domain names and allocated addresses. But its lease is nearly up. And the world's rich and powerful will join battle for control of what they see as a gold mine.

The Bush administration wants Icann turned into a private corporation, on US soil and subject to US controls. Much of the rest of the world objects to that but the loudest opponents are countries with a history of censorship and repression, such as China and Iran. The likely balance of power in that struggle rests with the European Union, whose position is not clear.

Is this not clear to you all where this is heading? Kofi can't even manage the Oil For Food Program... what the hell do you expect either the UN or the EU to do to our Internet? We can kiss our "free speech" goodbye! And we can most ASSUREDLY kiss our Conservative blogging asses goodbye if this ever comes to fruition!

People, if we don't stop resting on our laurels and start fighting, we are going to wind up living in a fascist, socialist state run by Islamic Radicals.

Today Drudge even has MORE links... here, here, and here.

PoliticalTeen & StoptheACLU have it also.