US House votes to keep Net out of UN control
7 Dec 2012 7:21 AM IST
The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution calling on the Obama Administration to oppose UN control of the Internet.
The bipartisan resolution - already been passed by the Senate comes as the countries are attending the United Nations conference on telecommunications this week in Dubai.
‘The 193-member countries of the United Nations are gathered to consider whether to apply to the Internet a regulatory regime that the International Telecommunications Union created in the 1980s for old-fashioned telephone service,’ Congressman Greg Walden on the House floor.
Senators Claire McCaskill and Marco Rubio, who had introduced the resolution in the Senate, said this puts Congress on the record staunchly opposing foreign interference with or regulation of the Internet.
The bipartisan resolution - already been passed by the Senate comes as the countries are attending the United Nations conference on telecommunications this week in Dubai.
‘The 193-member countries of the United Nations are gathered to consider whether to apply to the Internet a regulatory regime that the International Telecommunications Union created in the 1980s for old-fashioned telephone service,’ Congressman Greg Walden on the House floor.
Senators Claire McCaskill and Marco Rubio, who had introduced the resolution in the Senate, said this puts Congress on the record staunchly opposing foreign interference with or regulation of the Internet.
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