[At-Large] India proposes Government controlled Internet

[Carlton Samuels]

Thanks for sharing, Siva.   Helluva thing to be the canary in the mine.

Carlton

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/10/27/india-proposes-government-control-internet
>
> This is from Kieren MacCarthy's article:
>
>
> >
> > "In a statement<
> http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/10/27/un-ga-india-cirp-proposal> sent
> > yesterday, India argued for the creation of a new body to be called the
> > United Nations Committee for Internet-Related Policies (CIRP) which would
> > develop Internet policies, oversee all Internet standards bodies and
> policy
> > organizations, negotiate Internet-related treaties, and act as an
> arbitrator
> > in Internet-related disputes.
> > The CIRP would exist under the United Nations, comprise of 50 Member
> > States, be funded by the United Nations, run by staff from the UN’s
> > Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) arm, and report directly to
> the
> > UN General Assembly."
>
>
> #  And the Government spokesperson argued that this “should not be viewed
> as
> an attempt by governments to ‘take over’ or ‘regulate and circumscribe’ the
> Internet.” !!
>
> #  The IBSA proposal was badly criticized by the Civil Society in the lists
> and at the Nairobi Internet Governance Forum, it appeared that India wasn't
> the prime contributor to that imaginative proposal, but those of us who
> believed that India couldn't have proposed or fully endorsed the first IBSA
> proposal --- we were wrong.
>
> Sivasubramanian M
> ISOC India Chennai
> http://isocindiachennai.org
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