UN Needs to Ensure Open and Inclusive Internet Governance

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UN needs to stay the bleep away from the Internet.

They will be as effective with governance as they have been in East Timor, or Cyprus; with all the compassion of the UN soldiers in the Congo (raping 12 year old girls in exchange for half a loaf of bread)...

You beat me to it. The UN is a nice idea, but the current implementation is ineffective in the places it's honest, and corrupt in the places it's effective.

If you've never seen the UN resolution that kicked Taiwan out of the UN, you owe it to yourself to read it -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly...

Definitely check out the Wikipedia link if you've never seen it - totally against everything the UN supposedly stands for.

If you have a problem with the internet, fork it. The research/education focused "Internet 2" is one example of this - still connected, but the backbones it runs on are independent.

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