Comments on: America’s first big digital defeat

By: amazingmets

amazingmets — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:08:16 +0000

Until the dismissal of Hamadoun Touré the United States should not send a penny to the UN.

By: ernesto

ernesto — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:30:28 +0000

darwin on December 17, 2012 at 7:04 PM

The UN means nothing here. Those countries cut the cables when they see fit - no treaty will change that. So long as the physical connection is there, hackers will do their work and information will be free. When authoritarians, "cut the hard line", things change, but again, they do that anyway.

By: lexhamfox

lexhamfox — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:10:12 +0000

The best way to stop them is to abolish the ITU.

Yeah coz who needs radios, cables, and satellites to work effectively together.

By: goflyers

goflyers — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:07:17 +0000

I think is a great excuse to stop funding the U.N. Without it there are many dictators who would be completely ignored.

They get their money back when they give the oppressive regimes the boot.

By: darwin

darwin — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:04:57 +0000

One lesson is that the best defense of the Internet is a good offense against an overreaching U.N. The majority of authoritarian governments in a one-country, one-vote system will keep chipping away at the open Internet. The best way to stop them is to abolish the ITU.

Why not just pull out of the UN and kindly ask them to move it somewhere else? Without the billions in US money the UN will begin to disenigrate. No one else is going to front billions to keep it and it’s thousands of socialist and Islamist parasites alive.

By: Greek Fire

Greek Fire — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:47:56 +0000

Well the UN can’t really claim it’s for democracy anymore.

But it’s not like Tor doesn’t exist.

By: ernesto

ernesto — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:44:03 +0000

Aside from physically cutting off access in their home countries – something authoritarian regimes do regardless of such treaties – this means nothing. The software arms race can only have one winner: hackers.