Op-Ed in Wall Street Journal about US control of internet
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
“Paul Volcker’s recent report on the United Nations Oil for Food scandal taught us a great deal about how the U.N. works…
…All of which explains why allowing the United Nations to be in charge of running the Internet is a very bad idea….
…The regimes in China, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Tunisia, for example, believe Internet content must be controlled so that individuals do not have access to any information that has not been approved by their governments. In China the word “democracy” is not allowed on the Internet; it is just too dangerous to the communist government. And so such nations want international controls on Internet usages and content…
…If the U.N. establishment believes free speech is arrogance, we can be confident that U.N. control of the Internet would be calamitous…”
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