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France: Internet summit likely to get nowhere
The United States will not heed requests by the European Union and other countries to accept a multinational approach to running the Internet, a French government official said Thursday. An international summit next week on how the Internet should be run was likely to end in stalemate, the official said.
A U.N. report has put forward the multinational approach to running the Internet, which serves a billion users worldwide, saying this would be more democratic and transparent, a view the 25 nations of the EU share. But the United States believes an international body running the Internet would slow the pace of innovation. A final round of talks on the report starts Sunday to seek a global agreement on Internet governance before the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia, on Nov. 16-18. ___________ Read More / Source: News.com |
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