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EU Calls for “Internet G12″ for Global Internet Governance

Old-Thinker News | May 7, 2009
By Daniel Taylor
As the EU Observer reports, Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding has called on President Obama to fully privatize the California based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the web address system for the internet, and build a “multilateral forum for governments to discuss general [...]

Rupert Murdoch: “Internet Will Soon Be Over”

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch gave a strange response when asked about plans for mainstream news websites to charge for content, declaring, “The current days of the internet will soon be over.”
He was making reference to the fact that corporate media websites cannot continue to survive under their current [...]