What makes this forum work is freedom. I am free to express my knowledge and my opinions about all things entrepreneurship.
There is a movement at work that could seriously erode the freedom of speech we now enjoy on the Internet. From Azcentral.com:
Since 1998, the basic plumbing of the Internet - administration of domain names, management of root servers and other duties - has been managed by an obscure California agency that reports to the U.S. Department of Commerce.But in another sign of growing international distrust of the U.S. government and the ever-increasing reach and importance of the Internet, some international leaders say that needs to change.
Beginning Wednesday at a summit in the North African country of Tunisia, a raft of countries plans to propose that the United Nations or perhaps a new international body take control of Internet regulation from the Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The United Nations is trying to take control of the Internet. Such a move would not only take away much of the freedom we now enjoy in this medium, but would also make it no longer "free."
A big part of this movement hopes to capture tax revenues and/or fees from the Internet for the UN. It would be their first victory in the movement for a world tax (no, I am not kidding).
There is an interesting analysis of this issue at Foreign Policy.
OK, so video blogs may not cause the end of my blogging, but having to work in a medium controlled by the United Nations probably would.
