UN Interenet Authority

Today, The United Nations negotiates a new treaty which will destroy the internet for the people  beyond SOPA/PIPA and ACTA. The internet needs no introduction, but it has enlightened every aspect of our lives. It is information without borders, and it allows the people from all nations and cultures to begin to understand one another, for the people internet is a medium for the influence of thought; however, These wonders internet has provided both economically, socially, and culturally threatens the status quo of our central governments and corporations, which they sparked today's meeting in Geneva. The list of objectives for this treaty before today are as follows, directly from the FCC commissioner Robert McDowell [1]:

• Subject cyber security and data privacy to international control;
• Allow foreign phone companies to charge fees for "international" Internet traffic, perhaps even on a "per-click" basis for certain Web destinations, with the goal of generating revenue for state-owned phone companies and government treasuries;
• Impose unprecedented economic regulations such as mandates for rates, terms and conditions for currently unregulated traffic-swapping agreements known as "peering."
• Establish for the first time ITU dominion over important functions of multi-stakeholder Internet governance entities such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit entity that coordinates the .com and .org Web addresses of the world;
• Subsume under intergovernmental control many functions of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Society and other multi-stakeholder groups that establish the engineering and technical standards that allow the Internet to work;
• Regulate international mobile roaming rates and practices.

Dozen of countries including the powerhouse BRIC countries desire to establish international control of the internet through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This will establish an international authority on the internet, and all DNS domains will be threatened in any country. Unfortunately, the Obama administration has not chosen a delegate, for this meeting; I assume the US will take the same stance as its stance with ACTA. The treaty is non-binding to the United States. The U.N. has also failed to issue a global tax to establish a global government, so the U.N. will not be an immediate threat to the internet since it has no financial infrastructure to enforce it on America. Why should this still concern Americans? The US debt to GDP is 102%, and the nations currency is supposed to be worthless when this debt reaches 100%; however, the reason why the United States has not experienced this tragedy is for two reasons. Our GDP increase by 4% every year because of the free-market we know as the internet. The second reason is the petrodollar, but it weakens every year because of decreasing confidence [2]; The second reason makes protection of our internet even more pressing. It's extremely important that we protect the internet not just because its a medium for absolute freedom of speech and expression. It's the only medium left in the world which has an Adam Smith free-market which stabilizes world economy. A simple example is this very blogspot with Google's adsense. Anyone is free to write and profit from a blog; however, the readers decide which blogs are worth attention. The readers have the freedom to decide what is relevant and interesting, and the worthy blogs rise to the top in readers and profits. Now imagine, Google decides to create a centralized editor for blogspot, so they can maximize profits from adsense. So, what happens? you have a small group of people in Google who decides what should be published on blogspot with only Google's interests in mind. You can generalize this thought experiment to ACTA, and the treaty from today's international conference. In essence, The free-market internet will be obliterated and centralized with only the interests of the plutocrats and central governments in mind. Rise up and protect the internet, Stop the Kraken!

Citations
[1] 
The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom



[2] 
 Dollar should be replaced as international standard, U.N. report says

China should cap forex reserves at 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars: China banker

 The Demise of the Petrodollar