Why the UN should not run the Internet

As previously reported, certain countries want the UN to take over governance of parts of the .

There are many reasons is a bad idea, but the name Robert Mugabe should be enough. In a speech to WSIS he basically compared the Internet to Weapons of Mass Destruction, and said it is used “for peddling propaganda … and campaigns used to deligitimise just struggles.”

So do you really want Muagbe having a vote on how the Internet is run?