A
new resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate offers political backing
to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert
more influence over the Internet.
Sen. Norm Coleman, a
Republican from Minnesota, said his nonbinding resolution would protect
the Internet from a takeover by the United Nations that’s scheduled to
be discussed at a summit in Tunisia next month.
…
Coleman’s
resolution endorses the principles–effectively maintaining the status
quo–that the Bush administration announced in June. But he ventured
even further by warning that if governance functions were handed to
bureaucrats from oppressive nations, the Internet would become "an
instrument of censorship and political suppression." Business groups
have raised similar objections, warning of censorship from nations such
as China, Iran and Syria.
US Senator Fires Shot at WSIS