The Battle to Rule the Internet
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:50 pm
The Battle to Rule the Internet takes place December 3 – 14, 2012 at the Dubai World Trade Center.
There, delegates from 193 nations will attend the United Nations World Conference for International Telecommunication Regulations.
They will battle over a binding global treaty for all internet traffic. A big part of their focus will be on how to protect the world from a growing number of cyber-criminals and cyber-terrorists.
The last time they met was in 1988, before the internet became what it is today – an all-encompassing, global medium for information and communication.
That year, 114 representatives from member states gathered in Australia and agreed to an extremely liberal treaty. It shielded the internet from economic and technical regulation and became what many believed to be the greatest deregulatory success story of all time.
But now we do more than send e-mail over the internet. The two billion global users make phone calls, do business, shop and play on the internet.
And now a new treaty is on the table that would give the United Nations unprecedented control that could threaten the internet’s free-flowing growth.
Sides are forming now over how much “protection”? and controls we really need… but the outcome of this treaty will affect the security of the world’s two-billion internet users.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-574493 ... docs-show/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57456 ... escalates/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 95322.html
http://wcitleaks.org/
There, delegates from 193 nations will attend the United Nations World Conference for International Telecommunication Regulations.
They will battle over a binding global treaty for all internet traffic. A big part of their focus will be on how to protect the world from a growing number of cyber-criminals and cyber-terrorists.
The last time they met was in 1988, before the internet became what it is today – an all-encompassing, global medium for information and communication.
That year, 114 representatives from member states gathered in Australia and agreed to an extremely liberal treaty. It shielded the internet from economic and technical regulation and became what many believed to be the greatest deregulatory success story of all time.
But now we do more than send e-mail over the internet. The two billion global users make phone calls, do business, shop and play on the internet.
And now a new treaty is on the table that would give the United Nations unprecedented control that could threaten the internet’s free-flowing growth.
Sides are forming now over how much “protection”? and controls we really need… but the outcome of this treaty will affect the security of the world’s two-billion internet users.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-574493 ... docs-show/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57456 ... escalates/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 95322.html
http://wcitleaks.org/