The United Nations has long out-lived its usefulness, being a hive of dictators and scum, who attempt to institute globalist controls on citizens reminiscent of the old Soviet Union and China, which are the two main nations behind this
U.N. Approves China-Backed Internet Convention, Alarming Rights Advocates
(AFP) — The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom.
The General Assembly approved the resolution sponsored by Russia and backed by China, which would set up a committee of international experts in 2020.
The panel will work to set up “a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes,†the resolution said.
The United States, European powers and rights groups fear that the language is code for legitimizing crackdowns on expression, with numerous countries defining criticism of the government as “criminal.â€
Which means that Democrats here will certainly support this, due to their reverence of Government, never quite realizing what it means for their own lives.
China heavily restricts internet searches to avoid topics sensitive to its communist leadership, as well as news sites with critical coverage.
A number of countries have increasingly tried to turn off the internet, with India cutting off access in Kashmir in August after it stripped autonomy to the Muslim-majority region and Iran taking much of the country offline as it cracked down on protests in November.
“It is precisely our fear that (a new convention) would allow the codification at an international and global level of these types of controls that’s driving our opposition and our concerns about this resolution,†a US official said. (snip)
Human Rights Watch called the UN resolution’s list of sponsors “a rogue’s gallery of some of the earth’s most repressive governments.â€
You can bet that nations like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, and so forth approve of this. Many European nations are behind this, as well, as their beliefs in Progressivism (nice Fascism) increase. And it is a hell of a reason to never allow the Obama era Net Neutrality, which is anything but neutrality, to be instituted, as it grants the central government massive new powers and controls over the U.S. Internet.
