US refuses to sign UN Internet regulations - Good Job!

This is pretty good news showing that the US ambassadors are paying attention.

The United States will refuse to sign a U.N. resolution calling for regulation of the Internet despite the measure winning the support of other countries participating in a summit on the issue, the American ambassador to the summit said Thursday.

“The U.S. today has announced that it cannot sign the revised regulations in their current form,” Ambassador Terry Kramer said in a conference call, adding that support for the resolution from other countries “looks strong enough that it looks unlikely that it will materially change.”

He added that the resolution will not force the U.S. to abide by the regulations.

“The resolution doesn't have teeth to it. ... At the end of the day, these (agreements) are not legally binding. ... They are much more normative and values-oriented.”

The interesting thing about this is that the UN regulations are "values based" leading me to believe that the rest of the world feels that people in the United States have no values.  Of course I can only speak for myself in saying that I feel I have good moral values but also seen 1000's more who seem to lack in the basics.

I say no to a regulated Internet and any attempt to take that away should be fought to the bitter end even if that does mean that other countries to create their own internets, just more bandwidth for us.

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