Controlling Internet Chaos
If ICAAN command is to be more commonly shared, then it should be done so with a few Countries that already stand out as unfailing bastions of free speech. Especially here and now, with several signs pointing toward Martial Law, conceivably resulting in a temporary Internet clampdown in our own land of the free.
What about us sharing our international net freedoms by exporting part of the Internet control to a well trusted country like Norway? Or one of the other neighborly consistently top-rated beacon- for-free-speech Nordic Countries?
After all, the highly respected watchdog group, Reporters Without Borders recently rated The U.S. 48th in their annual worldwide press freedom ranking. We are wedged there, right in between Togo and Nicaragua!
Moreover, the “extra-territorial” United States rating, came in at a dismally repressive 111th place.
How about going a step further and linking World Bank loans in with basic press freedoms?
Of course, since this Internet Governance Forum has no binding authority, what is to keep us from once again ignoring stately sage advice, just like we did before, with The League of Nations, the Kyoto Treaty and the same United Nations serious recommendations for not going to war?
We live in a world where in some parts, expressive bloggers have already been unjustly singled out for persecution. It’s time we spread some common sense around to reliable watchkeepers of free speech, who courageously await this challenge already grasping their prepositioned beacons for freedom.
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