With the latest call from China for an Internet "code of conduct" to be enforced by the "international community" we see the final phase of of an agenda meant to curtail free speech and control what is said, who says it and who sees it on the world wide web. For Americans, these "international norms" would directly nullify their constitutional right of free speech.
"It is highly necessary and pressing for the international community to jointly bring about an international code of conduct on cyberspace at an early date," said Wang Qun, director-general of the Arms Control Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, in comments to the U.N. General Assembly.
Wang's comments were reported by China's main state-owned press outlet, the Xinhua News Agency.
"China, for its part, will continue to commit itself to establishing a peaceful, secure, open and cooperative cyberspace and pushing for an early international code of conduct acceptable to all," Wang added.
For anybody that still has any doubt that Americans have been sold down the river and this was the agenda the whole time, we can pinpoint specific events that have brought us to the brink of having our Internet freedom of speech completely stifled.
Look back to a Newsweek article from March 2015, titled "Obama Wants a Global Community to Run the Internet, but It Could End Up in the Hands of China. Or Putin."
But they acknowledge that such a vision is yet to be fleshed out. A process to define a new approach to Internet governance was launched at a March conference in Singapore. Another gathering will be hosted in late April by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in São Paolo. There, organizers hope, global "stakeholders" will form a body capable of taking over the functions currently performed by the U.S. government. There will be other conferences, including one next September in Turkey, whose prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, just tried to muzzle Twitter in his country.
Pessimists note that international conferences often end in disagreement and rancor. Just look at what has happened to international talks on environmental issues, where for decades governments and activists have failed to agree on meaningful measures to combat climate change. Instead of a meeting of the minds, the pessimists fear, powerful undemocratic governments will muscle in and stifle the freedoms now enjoyed by Web users.
More from the Washington Times from May 2014:
In advance of a meeting in 2012 to consider changes to the ITU’s international communications regulations, Russia’s Vladimir Putin explicitly stated that he wanted to achieve “international control of the Internet using the monitoring and supervisory capability” of the United Nations.
What’s more, several countries did not hide their intent to adopt as official policy government censorship of Internet communications. A proposal floated by Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran — countries not known for respecting free speech — declared that ITU member states should be allowed to restrict communications “used for the purpose of interfering in the internal affairs or undermining the sovereignty, national security, territorial integrity, and public safety of other states; or to divulge information of a sensitive nature.”
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http://allnewspipeline.com/Internet_Code_Of_Conduct.php