[155266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US House to ITU: Hands off the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Fri Aug 3 17:03:41 2012
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:02:56 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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> The U.S. House of Representatives voted late Thursday to send a message to the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union that the Internet doesn't need new international regulations. The vote was unanimous: 414-0
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> Unanimous? I didn't think this congress could agree the earth is round unanimously.
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Have you *ever* seen control frea...err...governments vote to relinquish their power to other governments?
;-)
scott