Kofi Annan has resigned as the primary peace negotiator for the United Nations in Syria. In his resignation speech, he blasted the members of the Security Council for their inability to engage in any meaningful action in the crisis. The resignation is a key signal that the major powers have decided to let the civil war in Syria decide the matter, regardless of the number of civilian lives lost. There is little evidence that the civil war has entered anything like a decisive phase, so the de facto decision means that the major powers are willing to tolerate a very large number of innocent lives lost.
The internet is truly one of the most extraordinary innovations in human history, but it has so far been unregulated by any international treaties. The structure of the internet is actually governed by a private, non-profit organization called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Nominally, ICANN operates under the authority of the US Department of Commerce, and, of course, every national state can regulate the internet as it wishes to (as long as it has the ability to do so). Many countries wish to put the internet under the control of the International Telecommunications Union, which handles most matters of communications across national borders. The US is resisting these efforts, fearing that the ITU may place controls on the internet that could compromise its autonomy.
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