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U.S. to retain oversight of Web

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Efforts to replace U.S. oversight of the Internet with an international committee were defeated yesterday during U.N.-sponsored meetings.
Hundreds of government, nonprofit and industry delegates meeting at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia, agreed to establish a new international forum to discuss Internet issues, but it would not have any policy-making power.

But is this a good thing? Conspiracy theorists unite!

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One Response to “U.S. to retain oversight of Web”

  1. Roy says:

    Basically – the story went like this:

    World: We want to control the internet.
    USA: No.
    World: Come on!
    USA: No.
    World: Will you at least think about it?
    USA: No.
    World: If you don’t we will be forced to make our own DNS systems.
    USA: OK.
    World: But that will break the internet.
    USA: OK
    World: But that would be bad.
    USA: Then leave it alone.
    World: OK. But we’re making a committee.
    USA: That’s cute.

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