Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Europeans: U.S. Should Give Up Control of Internet

Strasbourg, France — The United States has too much control over the Internet and needs to give it up, a European Union bureaucrat declared Monday. EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, a Luxembourgian, called for ''full privatization'' of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demanding that it be removed from the supervision of the U.S. Department of Commerce when its operating agreement expires on Sept. 30.

[Since when is any EUNuch in favor or 'privatization' of anything? What he really means if having it managed by Brussels or worse (yes it's possible - wait for it...), the U.N.]

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