How Can We Save the Internet from the UN?

What is the Internet? It’s the reinvention of the wheel, it’s the most important creation since earth, sky, water, and man. It makes all the information in the world available, in every language, in every time zone, to everyone who has or can beg barrow or steal a computer. Next to Gods creations the internet is the greatest provider know to man. It weaves nearly as complicated a net as Gods creations making all things inter-connected to sustain all life on this planet.

The Internet is a complicated mechanism, difficult to explain in laymen’s terms. It started as a means of communication between academics. More simplistically inquiring minds what to know that was sometime in the 1969 time-frame. As ARPA’s, [an acronym I have no clue of it’s meaning] grew it was passed off to the DCA [Defense Communications Agency] for funding. Privatizing began sometime in the 1980’s. The internet as we know it began in 1990. Explaining the details of how the internet works is as complicated, as a young boy explaining to his teacher how his dog ate his homework.

The internet is America’s child, born in the USA. Let’s keep it that way.

The internet’s in danger of being taken over by the UN. There are no less than a dozen, perhaps more international commissions in perpetual meetings deciding who, how, and when the internet should be transferred from American control to an international body such as the UN. If such a transfer were made it wouldn’t take long for it to make the Food for Oil scandal look like Childs play. Turning the internet over to a corrupt origination such as the UN is courting disaster. The internet survives and grows through innovation and advancements. The UN bureaucracy would stiffen advancement. Only a free society offers the conditions for innovations necessary for the internet to survive.

Not to worry, the internet has grown beyond any single identity taking it over. The internet has become so vast, into the billions of subscribers it would be impossible for it to be controlled, or regulated. The internet is self-policing at this point. For the most part it works rather well. The constant threat of interference by government agencies to regulate content on the internet is ludicrous. Our government can’t win a war on drugs or secure out borders how can it expect to control a billion computer screens around the world? Turning the internet over to the UN would create a meltdown of the information age.

The internet is another one of those 800 lb. Gorillas that requires gentle care and feeding. I’m sure the bulk of the UN membership knows they’re blowing smoke when they say they want to control the internet. It serves to draw attention away from other inept policies of the UN.

As I said earlier, the internet is All American, that doesn’t mean others haven’t contributed and won’t continue to contribute. It simply means to exist and expand it must remain an American product. Let the UN find another cash cow to support their bad habits.