Will the U.S. Lose Control of the Internet? 553
MattSparkes writes "The first UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting is taking place next week in Athens, which aims to 'contribute to a better understanding of how the internet can be used to its full potential.' It is likely that several countries will object to the US monopoly on Internet governance, as they did at the last meeting, where the US cited fears of a loss of freedom of speech as the reason for retaining power. Other topics to be discussed include online security, access for non-English users and spam."
Re:Control vs Bureaucracy (Score:3, Informative)
No, but
"The US started the Internet"
is true. Lots of other countries had public internets, not necessarily using IP, at the same time as ARPAnet.
Re:Who would you trust? (Score:5, Informative)
Have you seen the news today? Journalists fall victim to ethnic and sectarian violence, US troops carry out more unlawful arrests [rsf.org]. Oh, and you've dropped even further down the Press Freedom Index [rsf.org]. Far from "higher standards than the rest of the world"; there are over fifty countries with freer speech than the USA.
Access for Non-English (Score:3, Informative)
There's something called IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) that is an effort to change that by allowing DNS to use Unicode characters. That way you could have native language DNS names.
How would you like it if you had to type in something in Chinese to get to
Re:Who would you trust? (Score:1, Informative)
Try providing some arguments to back yourself up, fucktard, and maybe you won't get modded flamebait.