UN control of the Net: Freedom wins … for now
Proposal to bring the Net beneath UN control nixed after failure to reach consensus We candidly can not support an ITU treaty this is inconsistent with the multi-stakeholder version of Internet governance: US delegation A FEW months ago, inside the wake of the US Government’s goal to enact such law because the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), I wrote that “governments internationally have never been snug with the virtual world, or some thing they can’t have an instantaneous have an effect on over. Technology has wrought terrific adjustments in society, and governments … have had a hard time maintaining up.” While fighting hard to bring the Internet to heel with SOPA and PIPA, america Government changed into however in opposition to the idea of the Internet being governed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations organisation that manages international telecommunications issues. The World Conference o...