On April 4th, 2012, Eliza Krigman wrote for Politico on the United States' response to a possible internet power grab by the United Nations. According to the article, the U.S. is going to face a fight when its delegation attends an upcoming U.N. treaty negotiation that will "redefine international agreements on Internet management." We're going to face a fight because some countries (Russia, China, India, and Brazil, among others) prefer a top-down governance structure that features strong regulation of the internet. The U.S. (and other countries) favor a bottom–up approach that discourages strict regulation.
Politico quoted Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) on the upcoming treaty negotiations:
For nearly a decade, the United Nations quietly has been angling to become the epicenter of Internet governance, but now those efforts appear to be intensifying . . . It’s absolutely imperative for the United States to oppose this naked power grab led by Russia and China.
Politico noted that "the looming threat to the Web [has] largely [gone] unnoticed in the U.S." Hopefully that will change.
You can find the Politico source article here.
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