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| On the 3rd, Internet sanctions may be validated by The ITU. |
On the 3rd of December, 2012 The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), branch of the UN, will be meeting to discuss an outdated communications treaty. This meeting that will take place behind closed doors could threaten our very freedom and our ability to connect with others throughout the rest of the world. Our Internet should be open and inclusive not threatened with censorship that could stifle innovation!
“Contrary to some of the sensationalist claims in the press,” ITU Secretary-General Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré shot back in a speech last week at Columbia University, “WCIT is definitively not about taking control of the Internet or restricting people’s freedom of expression or freedom of speech.”
Despite Dr. Touré’s reassurances, however, claims that the WCIT is being hijacked are hardly sensational–nor are they being raised by “the press.” Rather, a remarkably broad coalition of governments in both developed and developing nations, advocacy groups on the left and the right, and leading international Internet engineering groups have all been sounding the alarm.
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