Friday, November 18, 2005

You know a medium by its enemies

Cuba, Iran lash out at Internet freedom

Especially ironic:

"Fidel Castro, the unflinching promoter of the use of new technologies," believes "it is necessary to create a multinational democratic (institution) which administers this network of networks," said the WSIS delegate from Cuba.

In Cuba, only people with government permission can access the Internet, owning computer equipment is prohibited, and online writers have been imprisoned, according to Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based free speech watchdog group.

4 comments:

Jamie Irons said...

We are going to have to be almost preternaturally vigilant to keep the disaster of UN or internationalist-transnationalist control of the Internet at bay.

These idiots will not give up.

I'm so glad Iran's Minister of "Information" and IT (wink wink) is aware that the Internet is used "for the propagation of falsehoods." Fortunately, Iran would never be guilty of that sort of thing.

Jamie Irons

Barry Dauphin said...

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.": Thomas Jefferson

Yes, Jamie is spot on. And vigilance means a lot of work. Many of these UN types hope to prey upon our urges to simply rest, to not think about the hard stuff, to let someone else do the heavy lifting, etc. We're supposed to believe that Iran's minister of communication and information technology would be perfectly content with the an internet that includes the likes of YARGB. Yeah, right. Of course wait until the campaign finance "reform" folks try to literally regulate the content of a blog like this. Hell hath no fury like a blogger screwed.

Barry Dauphin said...

Thanks for the info, Knucklehead. That is good news I hadn't heard, although we should still keep the powder dry.

Anonymous said...

"Fidel Castro, the unflinching promoter of the use of new technologies . . ."

Unflinching. Wow.