Does a spider give control of her web to other arachnids that have contributed nothing towards its creation? The question is absurd for creatures in the insect world, but in the human domain it has become a topic of discussion. To be sure, it is not a controversy concerning the control of a spider’s web, but of the World Wide Web. For now, a decision was made in favor of the United States keeping control of the internet's technical and addressing systems. This is as it should be considering the Internet was invented and developed in the United States, but there are
nations including China, Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia [which have and still are] pushing for the UN to be given control of the net.
Are we to turn over our technology to a bumbling and corrupt United Nations which would allow dictator and terror states to have a stake in how the Web is controlled? Nations like Iran whose stated goal is to follow
“the citizens from birth to death, ensuring their health, education, well-being and leisure. It will guide them as to what to read and write and what “cultural products” to consume so as not to be contaminated by Western ideas.”?
Or nations like Saudi Arabia which is a master state of censorship?
Of the estimated 2.2 million Internet users in the Kingdom, the majority regularly try to access forbidden or indecent material, Arab News has learned.“Of those who log on to the Internet, 92.5 percent are trying to access a website that, for one reason or another, has been blocked,” said Dr. Mishaal Al-Kadhi, acting general manager of the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).
KACST is not only the Internet gateway for the Kingdom but also acts as a filter for unsuitable material. The official said that pornographic material was one of the main items on the city’s “black list” which also includes gambling, terrorism and politics as well as anything contrary to Islamic beliefs.
If the United Nations and its minion terror-states have their way, the spider will be booted out and the international community will assume control of her magnificent web. This is nothing more than a blatant attempt to hijack American ingenuity, an intrusion always to be resisted.
Let us remain vigilant of our rights.
**NOTE** This article contributed to this blog posting.
I have heard comments from Europeans threatening to set up their own internet system if we do not relinquish control of the root servers.
Since the Oil-For-Food program has ended, I suspect the real agenda is that the UN is looking for a new cash cow.
It is time to be REALLY blunt. To the World, "We invented the internet. We developed it. We are going to keep it. Feel free to use it.
And if you really do not like it, invent your own."
jay
Oh, speaking of censorship, I have a cookbook a friend gave me about 6 years ago. The entire pork section had been cut out.
Isn't Tom Friedman the one who revels in snappy little sillinesses, as "we broke it, we fix it" about Iraq, and suchlike that go over at all those businessmen's conventions where for a mere $45,000 you can hear this stupid man prattle on, and feel that by gosh, you've really learned something today, you're really better informed. Yes, he is.
So let's feed him something for his collection of jejuneries. Re the Internet: "We built it, we own it." Just the kind of thing he likes.
Those of you who are not both native-speakers of English and viewers of Seinfeld, past or present, may wonder about the title. One word of advice: Don't.
Arachnid culture reverses the gender oppression paradigm stemming from neo-colonial abuse of the Muslim world.
/give me a cushy job in academia now please
I put up two pieces from the National Post, a Canadian newspaper, and a letter by a Republican senator on this story recently. Sensitive viewers might like to skip the graphic at the head.
This kind of story shows how deep and broad is the struggle against jihad and dhimmitude. There seems to be no end to it, and because of that, I think it shows clearly that we face not just a war against Islam but against our own culture as it is today. It's not nearly enough to push Islam out of our nations but that we must also reclaim our mission of revolutionary Modernity. The UN and the EU and their dhimmi lap dogs are trying, sucessfully in my opinion, to drag the entire world back to the Middle Ages. Yes, we might have computers in the new feudal time but we'll have little to read after the Western bibloclasts are done sanitizing our choices of reading and when the Islamic obscurantists impose shari'a on the lot of us.
What is to be done? I argue that we need a new social revolution from the ground up, and that it be universal, no exceptions based on anything. The Modernist world must extend to every village and hamlet and hovel around the world every where for everyone, regardless of current sensitivities about culture or faith or what have you. We might start with ridding ourselves of the UN. To do so we might have to work hard with men like the senator below, help him and others like him to stop the UN and the EU from destroying what we have left of our culture. And from there, we must expand.
http://nodhimmitude.blogspot.com/2005/11/un-eurocrats-make-web-grab-update.html
When the EU threw its weight behind the China-Iran proposal, many in the EU were surprised by this action, as made clear in the linked article in the nodhimmitude blog. The EU bureaucracy, being a non-elected government, needs money to survive. The EU is seeking to impose a DNS resolution tax on Internet usage. More than censorship or balkanization, this tax would do more to kill the Internet than anything.
As Jay points out, "Feel free to use it." That is the beauty of the Internet to all except EU bureacrats, to whom nothing should be free, least of all, free from taxation.
For a pittance, less than a week's supply of grande lattes from Starbucks, anyone can own a piece of the DNS space, your very own domain name myownspace.com. For an month's supply of grande lattes, the domain owner can find space on a web server that hosts the domain for 1-3 years. With a little sweat equity and some rudimentary knowledge of HTML tags, anyone can have their own personal space on the Internet.
What the EU would like to do is tax the owner of myownspace.com each time someone's browser sends a DNS request to the DNS root servers to translate myownspace.com to the IP address (e.g., 012.345.678.901) of the space on the host web server. Imagine as a small retail business owner being charged a tax each time someone came into your store to browse and did not buy.
Many websites are informational only, such as this one. No revenue is generated from the visits, much to the chagrin of Mr. Spencer would no doubt be independently wealthy by now. If an information website is popular enough, ad space could be sold (which is also taxed as income) to help cover the DNS tax. But then informational sites contain a message. Even if such message is personally appealing to a prospective advertiser, perhaps many of that advertisers customers are not, leading to a loss of customers.
Since our visits to this site do not make Mr. Spencer independently wealthy, what then would be the effect of a DNS tax levied against him? Even a tax of one tenth of one United States penny could become an impossible financial burden for a website owner who does not generate any income from a highly successful website.
Thus, the website would be taken down. Hugh's excellent commentaries would be silenced.
"much to the chagrin of Mr. Spencer..."
-- from a posting above
His chagrin is nothing compared to mine.
"we face not just a war against Islam but against our own culture as it is today."
And just as we have to identify the one enemy (and we few have done so), so too do we have to identify the other. So far, half of us here don't even know who it is, and when we call attention to it, they ignore it or belittle us.
We now have three deadly Problems:
1) Islam
2) PC Leftism (which is the inability to see #1)
3) The inability to see #2 (for which I have no name -- call it sheer stupidity for now).
I have been worried sick about this and it was such a relief to hear that the tyrants and the bureaucrats failed. But what I still cannot understand is how and why such a ludicrous, unbelievable proposal was ever considered by the U.S. Why would we contemplate for one second the relinquishment of our technological masterpiece to the likes of the despicable UN?
I keep my chagrin locked in the basement, evertime it gets out the police show up...
Keep the sticky fingers of the UN off the internet. It's not theirs, they didn't invent it, but they want to steal it...
Let's be frank about the UN. The UN represents barbarism. It should be dismantled as soon as possible. Far from promoting peace/human rights/all sorts of sweet & squushy good things/ it promotes war, oppression, all sorts of bad things, etc. Giving the UN any increase in power or influence is an attack on civilization. Now, it seems that the EU is trying to wreck the civilization of Europe. The EU too has to be dismantled. The sooner the better. For the sake of peace.
Bravo, Eric!
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And may the REAL God (which is NOT 'allah') deliver us from Islam, the UN, the EU, and all other forms of tyranny.