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Pentagon may be Deciding Norwegian Negotiating Position on Internet Governance

posted by CoolHand on Friday November 06 2015, @08:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the non-isolationism dept.

canopic jug writes:

In 2012 Petter Reinholdtsen came across a document in the mail journal for the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications on OEP that piqued his interest. It appears that someone capable of inviting selected NATO nations to a meeting in the Pentagon organized a meeting where someone representing the Norwegian defence attaché in Washington attended, and the account from this meeting is interpreted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications to expose Norway's negotiating position, negotiating strategies and similar regarding the ITU negotiations on Internet Governance. According to Reinholdtsen, the rejections do not seem to make sense and cause him to ask, is the Pentagon deciding the Norwegian negotiating position on Internet governance?

The title of the document was "Internet Governance and how it affects national security". The document date was 2012-05-22, and it was said to be sent from the "Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations". He asked for a copy, but his request was rejected. Three years later, he requested again and the ministry upheld its rejection quoting the same law reference as before, while the permanent mission rejected it quoting a different clause.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @06:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @06:30AM (#259843)
    Just give the masses their bread and circuses (reality TV, facebook, candy crush etc) and the rich will mostly be fine.

    And fact is that's what most of them really want. Not more wars. It's only a few crazy leaders stirring up foolish young men to kill and die. We'd do a lot better if people stopped thinking it's so great and honorable to be soldiers and let someone else decide who you hate, kill or get killed by.

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday November 07 2015, @11:24AM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 07 2015, @11:24AM (#259910) Journal

    The trouble is, some people have a book that culturally they are conditioned to follow (compelled to?) and that book says "take over the world and eliminate those who resist, making their lives a misery in the mean time." There is not just one book like this. There are many, and they people all have to fight with each other. It will never stop. The best we can do is to contain it.