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By Brendan Sasso – House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the United Nations more control over the Internet.
The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, and would give the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) more control over the governance of the Internet.
Larry Strickling, the head of the Commerce Department‘s National Telecommunications and Information Administration said the measure would expose the Internet to “top-down regulation where it’s really the governments that are at the table, but the rest of the stakeholders aren’t.” more> http://tinyurl.com/7y592ak
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