Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-305"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Organisation and management of the Internet – Policy issues 1998 – 20002
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010314.14.3-305"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-14-Speech-3-3062
lpv:speaker	lp:Reino Paasilinna2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank my colleague, Mr Carraro, for this competently prepared and timely report. This ICANN manoeuvres the Internet’s information channels and determines who has the use of addresses and how they might achieve this. Whole countries can fall foul of the organisation’s tyranny and be cut off from information if they do not agree to play the game. Companies’ profits can dive if a letter or dot is put in the wrong place. The organisation’s power now extends to copyright and consumer matters, and that power is growing all the time. But the organisation is supervised by no one and responsible to no one. This is a peculiar combination! Recently there was a vote to increase the Board of Directors to nineteen members. Of the three billion of those entitled to vote in the network vote, just seventy-six thousand did. It is a strange game! This is an incredibly undemocratic system in an incredibly important role. The Commission has quite rightly taken action, and so it must. But we need something more. ICANN cannot be the administrative organ of the networked world or its nerve centre without having any responsibility, led by a random group of people. Surely somebody must be responsible for something. I would nevertheless like to thank the Commission and Mr Liikanen, who has worked hard to produce an excellent document for the Stockholm Summit at this serious point in time, which Mr Carraro, among others, referred to. It is an important contribution, and it will give hope to the IT sector in its proposal for measures that would make it easier for companies to function, increase employment and, as a result, boost European competitiveness."@en1

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