Comments on: The U.N. thinks about tomorrow's cyberspace

The United Nations' Houlin Zhao says the organization should be given more influence over the Internet.

[starfire10k]

Amazing progress since ???

It is certainly easy to pick on SPAM, Spyware, viruses, insert-latest-threat-here, to justify the need for change, but if the ITU, and Mr. Zhao have been working on these, and other issues of security, where is it published? I see no ITU-sponsored efforts related to the internet, other than an apparent power grab. If they knew as much about the internet as they believed they did, they would know how to make suggestions for improvements.

[starfire10k]

Amazing progress since ???

It is certainly easy to pick on SPAM, Spyware, viruses, insert-latest-threat-here, to justify the need for change, but if the ITU, and Mr. Zhao have been working on these, and other issues of security, where is it published? I see no ITU-sponsored efforts related to the internet, other than an apparent power grab. If they knew as much about the internet as they believed they did, they would know how to make suggestions for improvements.

Bad...Very Bad Idea

Giving control of the Internet to the UN is a very bad and stupid idea. The First thing to go would be the freedom of speech on the net..so called offensive site will start being taken down left and right. We should not be listening to a man from the Ministry of Information, of a Communist country, he can't possably know what it means to lose freedom of speech. Pushing this idea though on the pretence of better security...is just an example of how stupid they think we are.

Yes, bad idea...

A man tries to spread the censorship of Internet to go in the country toward the world. Is the man wish to make the world huge LAN? The extension of the power principle - man of Communist country grasps that kernel. It is terrible. He wants to justify that a country is doing the censorship of the Internet with a name of the 'rule'.

Bad...Very Bad Idea

Giving control of the Internet to the UN is a very bad and stupid idea. The First thing to go would be the freedom of speech on the net..so called offensive site will start being taken down left and right. We should not be listening to a man from the Ministry of Information, of a Communist country, he can't possably know what it means to lose freedom of speech. Pushing this idea though on the pretence of better security...is just an example of how stupid they think we are.

Yes, bad idea...

A man tries to spread the censorship of Internet to go in the country toward the world. Is the man wish to make the world huge LAN? The extension of the power principle - man of Communist country grasps that kernel. It is terrible. He wants to justify that a country is doing the censorship of the Internet with a name of the 'rule'.

[cchamb2]

The Fox Guarding the Chicken Coop[

Letting China bring the Internet into the ITU would be like letting Bonnie and Clyde supervise a munitions factory.

Most of the spam being spewed on the Internet involves China, whether it be in bulletproof hosting, or in hosting the email process in either direction.

China has a notoriously bad record with regard to individual or intellectual property rights - not surprising since they are [depending on who you ask] either a socialist or communist *society* as well as in their politics. Everything belongs to everyone and no one has any rights beyond what the State grants.

China has displayed this philosophy in censoring it's own population's access to the Internet at the national level.

And we want them running the show for what reason exactly?

[cchamb2]

The Fox Guarding the Chicken Coop[

Letting China bring the Internet into the ITU would be like letting Bonnie and Clyde supervise a munitions factory.

Most of the spam being spewed on the Internet involves China, whether it be in bulletproof hosting, or in hosting the email process in either direction.

China has a notoriously bad record with regard to individual or intellectual property rights - not surprising since they are [depending on who you ask] either a socialist or communist *society* as well as in their politics. Everything belongs to everyone and no one has any rights beyond what the State grants.

China has displayed this philosophy in censoring it's own population's access to the Internet at the national level.

And we want them running the show for what reason exactly?