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Claudia Rosett PJ Media 11/24/2012 Here it comes again — another United Nations-sponsored grab to control the Internet. Next month, Dec. 3-14, the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is holding a conference in Dubai, at which UN member states will meet to update the ITU treaty arrangements for international communications. The window will be open […] November 26th, 2012 | Tags: Dubai, Hamadoun Toure, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Zhao Houlin | Category: China, Internet, Iran, United Nations | Comments are closed
Fears ‘secretive’ govs plan to make it pay for stuff The Register [UK] 21 November 2012 Google has attacked a “closed-door meeting” of United Nations’ regulators organised by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) taking place next month. The Chocolate Factory claimed that some of the proposals to overhaul the 1988 comms treaty could be bad […] November 23rd, 2012 | Tags: emerging markets, Facebook, Google, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Skype, YouTube | Category: 1st Amendment, Censorship, FCC, Government, Internet, Social networking websites, Taxes, technology, Unions, United Nations | Comments are closed
William Begelow Breitbart.com Big Government 3 Aug 2012 The House of Representatives, in a rare show of unanimity, approved a resolution that urged Barack Obama to stand against international proposals that would give the UN more control over the Internet. There are proposals in the works to be presented in Dubai in December that would […] August 3rd, 2012 | Tags: Google, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Rep. Mary Bono Mack, Vint Cerf | Category: Barack Obama, China, Congress, Internet, Russia, United Nations, United States | Comments are closed
Global Internet tax suggested by European network operators, who want Apple, Google, and other Web companies to pay to deliver content, is proposed for debate at a U.N. agency in December. Declan McCullagh and Larry Downes CNET 6/7/2012 The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including Google, […] June 11th, 2012 | Tags: Apple, Facebook, Google, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Internet taxes, mandates, Netflix, Robert McDowell, WCITLeaks, World Conference on International Telecommunications | Category: Censorship, China, Department of Defense, Europe, Internet, Taxes, United Nations, United States | Comments are closed
Josh Peterson The Daily Caller 5/30/2012 American policymakers met Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to discuss how international proposals to regulate the Internet would affect the U.S. and developing nations. That fate which may decided at a conference in Dubai in December. Policymakers were adamant that the proposals to renegotiate a […] May 31st, 2012 | Tags: accountability, Ami Horowitz, BRIC group, bureaucracy, Free State Foundation, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Matthew Groff, Moral equivalency, Richard Beaird, Robert Mugabe, transparency, Vint Cerf, worldwide regulations | Category: Brazil, China, Congress, corruption, Internet, Latin America, Russia, State Department, TAKE ACTION!, United Nations | Comments are closed
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