Comments on: Deception from the ITU

By: thor42

thor42 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:31:58 +0000

Kowtow has nailed it – the UN is a bloody corrupt mess.
Recently, UNRWA (the biggest part of the UN and the group that babysits the Fakestinians) actually celebrated the 60th anniversary of their founding – as if 60 years of babysitting the Fakestinians were something to be proud of!

Then there is the fact that the UN passed a resolution (pushed by the Islamic countries) that called on countries to ban the “defamation of religion”. ( It was, of course, a bid to ban the criticism of *Islam*, but anyway….)
*That* is the kind of environment that the ITU is operating in. I wouldn’t trust them to run a bath.

By: hinamanu

hinamanu — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:21:32 +0000

Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, on Wednesday warned governments that attempts to block the Internet were doomed to failure due to its scattered structure.

Speaking at the launch of a league table showing which countries use the web most effectively, Berners-Lee said the lack of a global internet “off-switch” meant authoritarian regimes could not stem the influx of digital information. “The way the Internet is designed is very much as a decentralised system,” he explained at the London launch. “At the moment, because countries connect to each other in lots of different ways, there is no one off switch, there is no central place where you can turn it off. “In order to be able to turn the whole thing off or really block, suppress one particular idea then the countries and governments would have to get together and agree and co-ordinate and turn it from a decentralised system to being a centralised system. “And if that does happen it is really important that everybody fights against that sort of direction.” Sweden came out on top of the global league table, which was calculated by the World Wide Web Foundation using indicators such as the political, economic and social impact of the web, connectivity and use. The US came in second, ahead of Britain, Canada and Finland. France came in at 14th place. Yemen ranked bottom, closely followed by Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and Benin. Berners-Lee, who was honoured during the London Olympics opening ceremony, launched the first web page on Christmas Day 1990. He is credited with creating the World Wide Web, which enables users to store and access information via the internet.

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By: CHFR

CHFR — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:27:30 +0000

It is not often I am aligned with Greenpeace but I am with them on this.

By: kowtow

kowtow — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:52:29 +0000

Muslim and other repressive regimes using the once meaningful UN to implement their world view.

Under it’s current auspices the UN is a waste of time and money.

By: libertyscott

libertyscott — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:33:36 +0000

David, the ITRs should be abolished.

I was involved in implementing them in the NZ context and they remain contrary to the WTO obligations of all signatories to the GATS and have no useful purpose in international law, there being no sanctions for their non observance.

In an age when networks have been built and operated by multiple competing private entities, the ITRs have no role.

The NZ government position should be to argue for their abolition, but as a backstop, no changes. The IRRs (radio regs) have a role because radio waves do not respect borders, but ITRs are a tool of protectionism and technology is rendering them (and much of what the ITU-T Sector does) as redundant.

Time to move on.