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Brits, Yanks Won't Sign; UN Telecoms Treaty Talks Off
- The Telegraph , Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:56 PM
The British delegation called the proposals, meant to update an international telecoms agreement signed in 1988, “a bad agreement that does nobody any favours and makes nobody happy”. The Americans said the draft treaty was an attempt to increase official influence online at the expense of the existing “multi-stakeholder” model of internet governance, whereby private firms, NGOs and other organisations have equal sway.
