Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
June 19, 2013
The head of Russia’s cyberspace policy today called for
global governments to react to the NSA spy scandal by creating a United
Nations-style body that would have regulatory control over the Internet –
including a web kill switch.
UN Kill Switch.
During a speech at a specially arranged meeting
initiated by the upper house of the Russian parliament, Information
Society Development Commission head Ruslan Gattarov called for a newly
created group to control the world wide web, “So that everyone, not only
the US, has access to the master switch.”
Gattarov made reference to the creation of the UN after
World War II in calling for a similar organization to have authority
over the Internet.
The special session was called in response to recent
revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden that the NSA has been
downloading information “directly” from the servers of the likes of
Facebook, Google and Microsoft under a vast spying operation called
PRISM.
Gattarov called for an international investigation into
the scandal, remarking, “We cannot let this issue sink into an abyss, as
many people desire, we will not allow the question to vanish without
result.”
Last November, representatives from 200 governments
attended the World Conference on International Telecommunications,
during which participants advocated that control over the Internet be
handed to the International Telecommunications Union, which is the
United Nations’ specialized agency for information and communication
technologies.
As Alex Newman reported,
the controversial plan discussed at the conference would, “allow
governments to shut down the Web if they claimed it could “interfere” in
the internal affairs of other UN member regimes.”
