WASHINGTON – Secret negotiations involving dozens of countries preparing for a United Nations summit on international telecommunications could lead to changes in a global treaty that would diminish the Internet’s role in economic growth and restrict the free flow of information.
The U.S. delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunications to be held in Dubai in December has vowed to block any proposals from Russia and other countries that they believe threaten the Internet’s current governing structure or give tacit approval to online censorship.
But those assurances have failed to ease fears that bureaucratic tinkering with the treaty could damage the world’s most powerful engine for exchanging information, creating jobs and even launching revolutions, according to legal experts and civil liberties advocates who have been tracking the discussions. Social networks played a key role in the Arab Spring uprisings that last year upended regimes in Egypt and Tunisia.
Russia, for example, has proposed language that requires member states to ensure the public has unrestricted access and use of international telecommunication services “except in cases where international telecommunication services are used for the purpose of interfering in the internal affairs or undermining the sovereignty, national security, territorial integrity and public safety of other states, or to divulge information of a sensitive nature,” according to a May 3 U.N. document that details the various proposals for amending the treaty.
The wording of this provision could allow a country to repress political opposition while citing a U.N. treaty as the basis for doing so. The provision also appears to contradict Article 19 of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says people shall have the right to access information “through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
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Big brother just won't go away.
It is time to STOP any American funding of the United Nations. And, take over the building in New York or require them to pay taxes just like private citizens. There free ride should be over NOW.
Two words hell no.
It is Obama, who runs to the United Nations to tattle on the American citizens, and He and his unpatriotic
backers are trying to turn the USA over to the UN One World Government, to bury our Democracy. Our country handed over by someone, who has been breaking America's laws, and breaking the incoming Presidential Oath of Office, to preserve, protect and defend the US Constitution and the Laws of the US.
He said, stumbling, that He would, and then had to repeat in it again privately inside away from the public viewers. Obama continues to break laws of our America. Why is He still in office after committing crimes?
WHY are WE still tolerating all this 3rd world garbage in OUR country, telling US how to do anything, or placing any controls/limitations/restrictions on OUR citizens????
Get the U.S. out of the UN and get the UN out of the U.S. and that's NOT just a slogan, it's a DEMAND!!!!
Make it so!!!! Clean out the garbage!!!!