03.10.2012 - 09:45 [ techdirt ]

UN: We Don‘t Want To Take Over The Internet… Just Fundamentally Change How It Works

We‘ve been covering how there are a number of troubling proposals before the UN‘s ITU (International Telecom Union), which has been trying to use its role as the global regulator of international telecom issues to insert itself into how the internet should work. So far, the leaks from the secretive process have really only served to highlight how various telcos are using this as an opportunity to get regulators to divert money their way from internet innovators, because they‘re jealous of the revenue that actual innovators can generate.