Keep Internet Free. No Control by Theocrats or Autocrats
am 12.10.2005 von Law & Justice
An important battle about who will control the Internet is currently being fought. On the one side is the USA. They
want to keep the status quo
(ICANN) and have succeeded to get the support of most of the global Internet community. On the other side is an amalgam of states that want as much control as possible in order to limit the Internets power to undermine their own political regimes. This group comprises Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, and probably in a later stage also North Korea. Surprisingly, the European Union seems to drift away from supporting the USA and is shifting its policy on this issue towards the other side. But the American point of view openly received strong support from former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt.
A few weeks before the UN sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, the EU is seeking backing from other countries, except from the USA, for a proposal to internationalise control of the Internet. Previously, the EU was aligned with the USA, which meant keeping the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as the body in charge of managing the Internet. The US Department of Commerce has a veto power of over ICANN’s decisions.
The EU proposal was supported by all other countries, apart from the USA, at a preparatory conference in Geneva last month, according to EU spokesman Martin Selmayr. It is not that ICANN is not doing a good job but even ICANN has called for internationalisation, he …
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