The End Of The Free Internet?
By DICK MORRIS
Published on
DickMorris.com on December 7, 2012
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Until now, the work of the UN negotiators who are pondering how to
regulate the Internet has been shrouded in secrecy. But as 1,950
delegates from 193 countries gather this week in Dubai to consider 900
proposals to regulate the Internet, their game is becoming clear.
The Russian-educated head of the International Telecommunications Union
(ITU), the UN body seeking to control the Internet, Dr. Hamadoun Toure
says: "The brutal truth is that the internet remains largely [the] rich
world's privilege." He adds that "the ITU wants to change that."
Here's how:
The ITU wants to force companies -- and eventually their users (us)
-- to pay for streaming video. The proposal is called "pay to
stream" or "a quality based model." According to the BBC, "This
would see firms face charges if they wanted to ensure streamed video and
other quality-critical content download without the risk of problems
such as jerky images." Presumably the revenues from this Internet
Tax would go to building up Net infrastructure in the less developed
world. And, undoubtedly, the cost will be passed onto the users
throughout the world -- including you!
But building up the Net's third world infrastructure is not the real
agenda here. It's a facade.
Russia and China want firms like Google to have to pay to send
streaming video into other countries, creating a charge that can be
passed on to the users. The idea is to make it so expensive that
nobody in their totalitarian countries downloads anything they shouldn't
which might open their eyes to the truth Moscow and Beijing want to keep
out.
The ITU is now charged with regulating long distance phone services.
But Moscow and Beijing, want to expand its power to dictate to the
Internet and they have a willing tool in Toure who was educated in
Leningrad and Moscow in the pre-glasnost era.
The delegates and would-be regulators have until December 14th to agree
on which proposals to adopt. Russia and China are seeking a
declaration that each nation has an "equal right to manage the Internet"
to enhance its ability to block politically free sites.
Fortunately, the European Union's digital agenda commissioner Neelie
Kroes has tweeted that "the internet works, it doesn't need to be
regulated by ITR Treaty." And Vinton Cerf, the computer scientist
who co-designed some of the Internet's core underlying protocols, says
"a state-controlled system of regulation is not only unnecessary, it
would almost invariable raise costs and prices and interfere with the
rapid and organic growth of the internet."
Cerf notes that "only governments have a voice at the ITU...engineers,
companies, and the people that build and use the web have no vote."
And so it would be if these talks lead to a new treaty: Only governments
will run the Net. God help us all!
(NONE of this is being covered by American media, whether cable,
broadcast, or print). Please send this column around to your
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