Comment Europeans miss the point (Score 2, Informative) 691
For all the things that you or I may hold against the US government, its administration of the Internet can't be one of them. The only thing we need from whoever controls the internet is for it to 1. not break and 2. not be censored. Until the US screws up either of these things I don't see how giving control to the UN will help things. I'm not some arrogant American who thinks that we're the only country on earth that respects freedom of speech, I wouldn't object to giving Europeans, Indians, Japanese or Brazillians or any other reasonable democracy a greater say. In case you guys missed it, 2/5 of the security council (don't anyone dare call Vlad Putin's Russia a democracy) and a very sizeable chunk of the general assembly are NOT democracies and have nothing approaching the same regard for free speech.