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Comment by jbarham | Hacker News Reader

It's telling that the conference is being held in Dubai, UAE, which blocks Skype because it competes with the incumbent monopoly telecommunications company, Etisalat, which is majority owned by the government of the UAE which is an absolute hereditary monarchy.

Remind me again why people like this should have any say in how the internet is run?

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Because it's the UN, theater of the absurd, where Gaddafi was invited to speak about democracy, where every dictator has their day.

At least we can take comfort that the UN is basically toothless and the good old USA more or less controls it... With the occasional rise from China/Russia... As long as the Americans keep their government in check everything will be fine, right?

And where the Vatican unites with fundamentalist Muslim countries to attack gay rights [1], womens rights, freedom of speech and secularism.

[1] http://www.albionmonitor.com/0305a/copyright/ungayrightsvote...

And what do you propose us David's do to defeat this Goliath?

Quietly ignore them and provide workarounds and carry on being naughty citizens until they are an insignificant legend.

Fighting them makes only them stronger.

Liberty always has the cost of blood, but why shed more blood than necessary?

Preemptive de-legitimization of their control is the first (and best) step towards reducing general popularity of governments attempting to establish control over the internet. Workarounds will definitely be declared illegal and dangerously punished.

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