United Nations too dumb to run the Internet

In a statement for the Congressional Record, Senator Norm Coleman said that when he was a Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations he probed the UN with the biggest probe he could find.

"My probe revealed management that was at best, incompetent, and at worst corrupt," said Coleman.

He said that until the UN conducted a "fundamental reform" of its management and operations it should be limited in its authority and responsibilities.

Coleman says that the Interweb has flourished under US supervision, oversight, and private sector involvement. Subjecting the net and its security to "the politicised control of the UN bureaucracy" would be a giant and foolhardy step backwards.

"Putting the UN in charge of one of the world's most important technological wonders and economic engines is out of the question. This proposal would leave the United States with no more say over the future of the Internet than Cuba or China—countries that have little or no commitment to the free flow of information,” he said.

Of course the politicised bureaucrats, ICANN who are running the operation for America and the rest of the world has also had its share of critics. See here, here, and here, as well as here.

You can read what Coleman said on the record and see a nice picture of him and his missus here. µ