| Submit your comments on this article |
| Science & Technology |
| Europeans: U.S. Should Give Up Control of Internet |
| 2009-05-05 |
| The United States has too much control over the Internet and needs to give it up, a European Union bureaucrat declared Monday. EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, a Luxembourgian, called for ''full privatization'' of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demanding that it be removed from the supervision of the U.S. Department of Commerce when its operating agreement expires on Sept. 30. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 And the Euros should kiss my BEEEEEEEP! |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2009-05-05 16:04 |
| #13 Get your stinking paws off my internet, you damn dirty ape! It's about ceding control of information to the dictators and wannabe dictators of the world. The UN dictatoriat tried this a few years ago. Now the wannabes in the EU are at it. It goes to show anyone looking where the EU's heart lies. Right now the internet is wide open to all expression and opinion. National firewalls are expensive, labor intensive (30,000 in China alone) and still leaky. If the Kimmies, Abdullahs, Jintaos and Redings can delete an offending website, or even better the offending ISP, from the root DNS, then they have easy control of what type information flows through the web. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-05-05 15:51 |
| #12 Build your own boys, just like the all European GPS substitute, Galileo. Otherwise, as has been so eloquently previously said, FOAD. |
| Posted by: rwv 2009-05-05 13:29 |
| #11 Are they going to pay Algore |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-05-05 12:54 |
| #10 Camels not being native to Europe, I suspect most of them rode in on hyenas. But it's only a guess. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-05-05 12:07 |
| #9 Panama Canal. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2009-05-05 12:07 |
| #8 "Regulators, Pa!!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-05-05 11:52 |
| #7 Under Obama I will not hold my breath. |
| Posted by: Kelly 2009-05-05 09:57 |
| #6 Dear Europeans: Cordially, America |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-05 09:49 |
| #5 As bad as US government control is, ICANN control would be even worse. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-05-05 05:36 |
| #4 No. Own patent. Get bent. And anyone else who wants control of it. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-05-05 02:22 |
| #3 And so it was demanded during the Clinton 1990's, Dubya, as it is being demanded again today in May 2009 under the Bammer. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-05-05 01:06 |
| #2 No. EU free riders want control of the system because control is what they are all about. Someone else in control is intolerable to them. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2009-05-05 01:06 |
| #1 Are they going to pay DARPA and US gov for developing it? No? FOAD! |
| Posted by: Satan 2009-05-05 00:34 |