EU Calls for “Internet G12″ for Global Internet Governance

Daniel Taylor
Old Thinker News
May 7, 2009 

As the EU Observer reports, Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding has called on President Obama to fully privatize the California based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the web address system for the internet, and build a “multilateral forum for governments to discuss general internet governance policy and security issues.” The international group would in turn “make recommendations” with regards to global internet governance.

Reding is anticipating the expiration of the ICANN contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce in September of 2009, calling for a separation of ICANN from its U.S. ties, making ICANN an international organization. Reding states,

“The expiry of the agreement between ICANN and the US government “opens the door for the full privatisation of ICANN, and it also raises the question of to whom ICANN should be accountable.”

“In the long run, it is not defendable that the government department of only one country has oversight of an internet function which is used by hundreds of millions of people in countries all over the world,” Reding said.

Reding’s comments provide a window into a wider agenda to transform the internet. Reding stated in October of 2008 that, “The Internet of the future will radically change our society.” Ultimately, according to Reding, the EU is aiming to “lead the way” in the transformation to “Web 3.0.”

Media Kingpin Rupert Murdoch recently announced that “The current days of the internet will soon be over,” indicating the establishment’s move to radically transform the internet away from its current form. Paul Joseph Watson writes, “The establishment media is dying and advertising revenue has plummeted as people turn to blogs and the alternative media for their news in an environment of corporate lies and spin.”

Watson continues,

The corporate media monopoly has terminal cancer and they are losing their power, which is why they are aggressively supporting moves to phase out the old Internet altogether and replace it with “Internet 2,” a highly regulated and controlled electronic Berlin wall, where alternative voices will be silenced and giant corporate propaganda organs will dominate once again.”

The future of the internet, according to author and “web critic” Andrew Keen, will be monitored by “gatekeepers” to verify the accuracy of information posted on the web. The “Outlook 2009″ report from the November-December issue of The Futurist reports that,

“Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen believes that the anonymity of today’s internet 2.0 will give way to a more open internet 3.0 in which third party gatekeepers monitor the information posted on Web sites to verify its accuracy.”

Keen stated during his early 2008 interview with The Futurist that the internet, in its current form, has undermined mainline media and empowered untrustworthy “amateurs”, two trends that he - and the establishment that he represents - wants reversed. “Rather than the empowerment of the amateur, Web 3.0 will show the resurgence of the professional,” states Keen.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/eu-calls-for-internet-g12-for-global-internet-governance.html

This is pretty scary.

First, a global monetary system, then global governence and now this. Mind you I think that global internet regulation is the most likely to pass followed by a monetary system, but, at the same time it's an absolute load of shit.

So the government can delete this thread.

 As funny as that sounds, yes, they would be able to, or if your country was apart of the group of countries that would be apart of this, they might block you from viewing it. They also might decide that this site is radical in some way and block you from viewing it, or block you from alternative news sites,ect.

the EU can go burn in hell. you can not has my internetz!!

At first I thought those Zeitgeist movies were a load of crap, but they seem to be becoming closer to reality everyday.

do not want

Thank fuck the EU elections are up soon. Let's hope people choose the right party. *coughs*sig*coughs*.

Having just returned from China i DO NOT want to see this happen in the West. If the system is in place that allows them to regulate what information people see, then they will abuse it. Control of information is control over people.

An example that i witnessed when i was in China was when the protests in support of Tibetan liberation occurred around the Olympic torch relay. People in China got genuinely angry about attitudes and what they saw as western interference in their domestic policy, because they have never been allowed to hear the other side of the Tibetan issue. Foreign teachers were beaten up, stores were boycotted, there was an internet clamp down preventing those who do speak English from gaining access to foreign articles on the issue and people got whipped up in frenzy of sickening nationalistic fervor. This all combined to create an us versus them attitude which is great for the existing government as discourages people from looking critically at their own country and government.