INTERNATIONAL INTERNET COMMUNITY AGENCY

Are you spending too much time on You Tube, My Space.com and the internet in general? The International Internet Community Agency says you are. The IICA wants to filter what Americans can view on the internet and tax time connected to the web. The proposed IICA regulations would allow filtering and censorship of what the international agency considers politically or morally objectionable internet material in the United States.

The head of the IICA, Yin Tzn Lo, former head of the Chinese Ministry of Internet Information, objects to current unregulated access to the internet Americans enjoy. Lo argues for stringent internet restraints claiming "Americans benefit from an intellectual advantage" via unfettered use of the internet. IICA goals include a level playing field for all peoples of the world.

The IICA is shopping proposed legislation around Washington DC with the hopes of convincing willing sponsors to take the bill to the Senate. Lo says he has received favorable responses to the IICA proposal from several elected officials. The bill would regulate domestic internet content through a government agency and, what is released out of the U.S. into cyberspace. Under the proposed legislation Internet users worldwide will start to see a monthly charge on their phone bills, or internet provider bill, taxing their time spent on the internet.

Opponents to the IICA proposal charge this international regulation is a violation of American’s Constitutional rights and a threat to the security and sovereignty of the United States. Several nations already monitor and regulate internet content.

What sane American would promote an international body regulating internet content and usage fees in the United States? Not many. And I would agree.

The above story is fiction. I made it up There is no IICA. If you began to feel angry or violated by the suggestion that an international body could regulate what you do on the internet and at what price, then good. You should have no problem understanding why citizens of Otero county would oppose U.N.World Heritage Site designation of White Sands National Monument.

At least the fake IICA and its proposed legislation had to go to Washington DC to be voted on by elected officials. U.N.World Heritage Site designation does not. Now, please enjoy the freedom of surfing the web while it is still free and uncensored.