{"id":905,"date":"2012-08-10T23:04:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T23:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/10\/the-united-nations-and-the-internet-its\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:28:06","slug":"the-united-nations-and-the-internet-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/08\/10\/the-united-nations-and-the-internet-its\/","title":{"rendered":"The United Nations and the Internet: It’s Complicated – By Rebecca MacKinnon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it comes to the Internet, however, Congress, the White House, technology companies, and civil liberties groups are all on the same page: All agree that the United Nations – a body representing the interests of governments – should not be given control over a globally interconnected network that transcends the geography of nation-states. The Internet is too valuable to be managed by governments alone. Yet there is less agreement over how well the alternative “multistakeholder” model of Internet governance is working – or whether it is really serving all of us as well as it might.<\/p>\n

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