‘The United Nations Could Seize the Internet, U.S. Officials Warn’ – ‘ReadWriteWeb’

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “The United Nations Could Seize the Internet, U.S. Officials Warn”.

Scott M. Fulton says, “Several emerging countries are rallying behind a campaign to have the International Telecommunications Union, the U.N.’s global standards body for telecommunications, declare the Internet a global telecommunications system, U.S. officials testified on Thursday before the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Led by China, Russia, India and now Egypt, which recently launched its own proposal, such a move would allow state-owned telephone networks to expand into VoIP”.

The United Nations Could Seize the Internet, U.S. Officials Warn

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