<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">it's about time the world comes to its senses and realize that the internet is a social economic tool for development and not a pon in a chessboard for the world powers to play politics i support china in coming up with a <i><b>new international body</b></i> to control the internet.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 8/20/12, alice@apc.org <i><alice@apc.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: alice@apc.org <alice@apc.org><br>Subject: [kictanet] China: US must hand over Internet control to the world<br>To: memakunat@yahoo.com<br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Monday, August 20, 2012, 10:20 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">And speaking of our KeNIC, do you recall the un-delegation of .iq. (Dot Iraq) sometime, here's a
view on that from China. <br>Best<br>Alice<br><br>From "China Peoples Daily" <br><br><br><a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html" target="_blank">http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html</a><br><br>US must hand over Internet control to the world<br>(People's Daily Online)<br>11:10, August 18, 2012<br><br>The Internet has become one of the most important resources in the world <br>in just a few decades, but the governance mechanism for such an <br>important international resource is still dominated by a private sector <br>organization and a single country.<br><br>The U.S. government said in a statement on July 1, 2005 that its <br>Commerce Department would continue to support the work of Internet <br>Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and indefinitely <br>retain oversight of the Internet’s 13 root servers.<br><br>This indicated the U.S. decision to retain ultimate control over the <br>global Internet,
which enabled it to unilaterally close the Internet of <br>another country. A suddenly paralyzed Internet would definitely cause <br>huge social and economic losses to the country.<br><br>More and more countries are beginning to question the U.S. control over <br>the world’s Internet as the international resource should be managed and <br>supervised by all countries together. However, the United States has <br>conducted a pre-emptive strike, and refused to give up control over the <br>Internet in the name of protecting the resource. The refusal reflects <br>its hegemonic mentality and double standards.<br><br>The United States controls and owns all cyberspaces in the world, and <br>other countries can only lease Internet addresses and domain names from <br>the United States, leading to the U.S. hegemonic monopoly over the <br>world’s Internet.<br><br>During the Iraq War, the U.S. government in 2003 asked ICANN to <br>terminate services relating to
Iraq’s top-level domain name “.iq” and <br>then all websites with the domain name “.iq” disappeared overnight. The <br>United States has taken advantage of its control over the Internet to <br>launch an invisible war against disobedient countries and to intimidate <br>and threaten other countries.<br><br>The United States have repeatedly called for “protecting Internet <br>freedom.”In fact, it is only protecting its own “Internet freedom” even <br>at the expense of other countries. Ten of the global Internet’s 13 root <br>servers are located in the United States, and the U.S. government can <br>supervise the Internet for national security reasons according to the <br>U.S. law. By doing so, the United States actually gains access to all <br>information transmitted online, while other countries can do nothing <br>about it.<br><br>Ultimate control over the Internet has been an important tool for the <br>United States to promote its
power politics and hegemony worldwide, and <br>any other country may fall victim to this. As a big country on the <br>Internet, China opposes the U.S. unreasonable and unilateral management <br>of the Internet, and seeks to work with the international community to <br>build a new international Internet governance system.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="/mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/memakunat%40yahoo.com" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/memakunat%40yahoo.com</a><br><br>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a
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