Google attacks UN net conference

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Submission + - Google attacks UN net conference (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by another random user on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @02:07PM

another random user writes: Google has warned that a forthcoming UN-organised conference threatens the "free and open internet". Government representatives are set to agree a new information and communications treaty in December.

It has been claimed some countries will try to wrest oversight of the net's technical specifications and domain name system from US bodies to an international organisation.

However, the UN has said there would be consensus before any change was agreed.

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