IP addresses.

The proposal would also add a new section on security issues. It specifies that the world's governments should "undertake appropriate measures" to protect the "physical and operational security of networks; denial of service attacks; countering unsolicited electronic communication (e.g Spam); and protection of information and personal data (e.g. phishing)."

The WCIT conference continues until December 14, so member countries still have several days to negotiate. During that time, the United States hopes to persuade the other nations to agree to a narrower set of rules that excludes key Internet functions from the ITU's jurisdiction.

It's important to remember that it was the ITU Member States who requested this conference - the ITU Secretariat functions only as the conference support team, helping with translation, interpretation and document management and distribution,American imperialism, we aren't actually imperialists, and the US really does want the rest of the world to be a freer place.

Nope. The CIA and other US state-sponsored entities have been destabilizing and overthrowing democracies for the better part of a century now, particularly in the Middle East and South America.

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The US is extremely powerful, but it is also extremely pro-freedom.

Again, not really. If you're thinking of American _people_ instead of the American government, maybe, but probably still no. This is the country that locked up Japanese citizens (including George Takei?) after Pearl Harbor for no good reason, the country that has pointlessly outlawed marijuana, even though its citizens are making drug cartels rich by buying it, and the country that has the highest incarceration rate in the