Global Government Now Seeks Total Control Over the Internet !

• Global government now seeks total control over the internet! 
  by J. D. Heyes, http://www.naturalnews.com/ 
  What is arguably the very last bastion of totally free speech is once again  under assault by the world’s tyrants, as the United Nations is now eying  regulation of the Internet – as though it was in need of being  regulated. Why? It’s an age-old story.
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  Leaders of authoritarian  regimes the world over hate the free flow of information that is disseminated  via the Internet. They hate the fact that they no longer have a monopoly on  ideas and opinion within their own country. They see notions of freedom and  liberty as a threat. They despise any medium that undermines their grip on  power. And their regimes are heavily represented in the U.N., of which the  United States (once considered the bastion of liberty and freedom) is the  largest contributor.
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  “Who runs the Internet? For now, the answer remains no one, or at least no  government, which explains the Web’s success as a new technology. But as of next  week, unless the U.S. gets serious, the answer could be the United Nations,”  reports The Wall Street Journal.
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  Authoritarians seek ways to  control free expression, free speech, and individual liberty
  A  sizable number of the world body’s 193 members simply oppose the open and very  uncontrolled nature of the Internet, the paper said, noting the World Wide Web’s  interconnected global networks that defy international boundaries and, as such,  make it extremely difficult for governments to tax or censor.
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  For over a  year, these authoritarian regimes have lobbied a UN agency known as the International Telecommunications Union to grab the reins of the Internet  and take over its management. The organization, which was originally  created in 1865 as the International Telegraph Union, last wrote a treaty  on communications in 1988, years before the commercial Internet developed into a  popular communications and commerce medium, and back when telecommunications  referred to voice telephone calls routed through national telephone  monopolies.
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  In the coming days, the ITU plans to hold a “negotiating  conference” in the emirate of Dubai, say reports. In the past months, rumors  have surfaced that a new treaty could be in the offing – one that will no doubt  prove disastrous to a free and open Internet.
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