John Zarocostas writes in this article in The Washington Times about the whining and moaning of the dictators and kleptocrats over at the UN who are unable to create anything of their own but who are eager to take over the creations of others. Apparently they claim that they can run them "better" than the original creators and owners. That's what they want for the Internet. (Al Gore has yet to comment on this development by the way.) In truth their real motive is control.
Most of these societies are dictatorships or nanny states of one sort or another and as a result they don't deal well with criticism. And their imprisoned populations cannot be allowed to know what life is like in a free society or just how backwards their own countries are when compared to western nations in general and America in particular. So the enlightened leaders of those nations would prefer to "protect" their citizens from information that might upset the status quo. Fortunately the US government told the enlightened leaders to stuff it.
Major developing nations spearheaded by China, Brazil, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and a number of industrialized countries including Norway, Switzerland and Russia would like to see the United States relinquish its historic control of the Internet.
"This situation is very undemocratic, unfair and unreasonable," said Sha Zukang, the ambassador from China, which this week imposed new rules that allow only "healthy and civilized" news to be read by the mainland's 100 million Web users.
China's government will determine which news is healthy and which news is not.
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