United Nations wishes the Web had been patented

Good day all, Angry Systems Administrator here. Normally I stay away from the political side of things, but I just saw a story that begs for a response from me.

The story from BoingBoing.net is titled:
WIPO boss: the Web would have been better if it was patented and its users had to pay license fees

The story once again demonstrates how much the elites hate the internet and the ability it gives to people to seek out unfiltered information and use it to make their own decisions.

From BoingBoing:

Last June, the Swiss Press Club held a launch for the Global Innovation Index at which various speakers were invited to talk about innovation. After the head of CERN and the CEO of the Internet Society spoke about how important it was that the Web’s underlying technology hadn’t been patented, Francis Gurry, the Director General of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), took the mic to object.

In Gurry’s view, the Web would have been better off if it had been locked away in patents, and if every user of the Web had needed to pay a license fee to use it (and though Gurry doesn’t say so, this would also have meant that the patent holder would have been able to choose which new Web sites and technologies were allowed, and would have been able to block anything he didn’t like, or that he feared would cost him money).

What this totalitarian thug is saying is that if he had his way, the Internet and the World Wide Web would be so locked down he and the other tyrants would not have to worry about the lower classes finding out just how corrupt they are. Without a doubt, Anger Central would not exist today. In fact, I would wager that the Tea Party groups would not exist and the United States, for all intents and purposes, would be nothing more than a subject nation of the UN.

To continue from BoingBoing:

This is a remarkable triumph of ideology over evidence. The argument that there wasn’t enough investment in the Web is belied by the fact that a) the Web attracted more investment than any of the network service technologies that preceded it (by orders of magnitude), and; b) that the total investment in the Web is almost incalculably large. The only possible basis for believing that the Web really would have benefited from patents is a blind adherence to the ideology that holds that patents are always good, no matter what.

Here I disagree a bit with BoingBoing. They’ve missed the point. It’s not so much about patents and intellectual property as it is about controlling information. The UN has been working to suppress free speech and the free flow of information since the Web took off in the 90’s. Gurry’s talk starts at 0:49:50. The image above shows Gurry announcing his theory, while the reps from CERN and ISOC look on.

Patents and copyrights have their place, but the current system is broken so badly that I doubt it can be reformed. It may have to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. However, people like Gurry show what they really want. Domination.

Thank you

~The Angry Systems Administrator~

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