The internet will never be the same again.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1585288,00.html
Thursday October 6, 2005
After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish
control of the internet to a coalition of governments
...expert and author of Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller:
An overseeing council "could interfere with standards. What would stop it
saying 'when you're making this standard for data transfer you have to include
some kind of surveillance for law enforcement'?"
...
"The idea of the council is so vague. It's not clear to me that governments
know what to do about anything at this stage apart from get in the way of
things that other people do."
There are still dozens of unanswered questions but all the answers are pointing
the same way: international governments deciding the internet's future. The
internet will never be the same again.
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