NationStates Jolt Archive

I applaud any and all of you who oppose this resolution. As is made clear in the wording of the resolution itself, funds must be directed towards worldwide literacy and education before the UN adopts such a proposal.

-The Citizens of Razu

Internet Advertising Pop-ups - a Resolution in Human Rights

More importantly, this is a fundamental violation of the individual rights of those who choose to create, host, and maintain websites as well as an attempt to absolve those who voluntarily choose to visit such websites of their responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

yes, but it might be in the intrest of everybody if there are limitations placed on this freedom. For example just because some options are possible (like cookies) doesn't mean they should be abused.

There are two ways to stop these overdone amount of adds (this proposal has no proper alternative, grin, which means we have the freedom to come up with an alternative). Either let the government put a ban too it, or unite the websurfers to make them coordinate so they start to ignore sites which are just a hell to go to, by having a good system that warns you in advance what you are heading to. The last is what should happen in capitalism, but our technology and the diffusion and uncoordination of the milions of webservers make it not happen very fast. Therefore a bit of assistance of the government which as our elected (or dictatorial protectors) government that is suppost to serve to protect our intrests is welcome.

And normally I would deal with this within my own country. But the internet is so global that it turns into a UN issue.

It would be intresting to know if there are good other alternatives to making money to maintain the websites. (which might be outcompeted by the abusive system that is now that turns our global pool of shared information into a labyrinth where you drown in.)

There are far greater issues in the world than internet pop-ups.

There are far greater issues in the world than internet pop-ups.

So? We should just dismiss it because some people think it is irrelevant. The fact is, it is at vote, so we should be discussing it's merits.

Fundamentally I agree with the resolution, however, I feel it is lacking in substance and clarification. I also believe it would be difficult to implement. Potentially it could be pointless as more and more anti-pop-up software is becoming available.

If the other fecking delegates would go through all twenty-something pages like I did, they would see that there are some good, well-written proposals that cover the same topic. So, I strongly urge all delegates to go through the proposals and approve some of them so we have some good issues to vote on. BTW, based on my region's reaction to this resolution, I have abstained from voting on it period.

ATTENTION: A new UN proposal has been filed by myself which fixes several of the flaws mentioned for the Internet Advertising Popups resolution.

Please take a minute to read over the "Internet Popup-Ad Reduction" proposal. It fixes grammatical errors, explains the purpose and background for the resolution, defines more specific actions required on the part of member UN nations, and does NOT ban popup-ads; it simply requires companies to allow the blocking of such advertisements in order to boost efficiency of the user and to reduce inappropriate content.

And please, vote NO to the current resolution, as the integrity of the UN resolution proposal process is at stake.
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since when is internet viewing in peace a right??

If internet viewing is a right, do our countries have to give everyone a computer and free internet access??

What would that do to our national budgets/economies/ and the number of lazy surfin bums out there like moi??

since when is internet viewing in peace a right??

If internet viewing is a right, do our countries have to give everyone a computer and free internet access??

What would that do to our national budgets/economies/ and the number of lazy surfin bums out there like moi??

since when is internet viewing in peace a right??

If internet viewing is a right, do our countries have to give everyone a computer and free internet access??

What would that do to our national budgets/economies/ and the number of lazy surfin bums out there like moi??

since when is internet viewing in peace a right??

If internet viewing is a right, do our countries have to give everyone a computer and free internet access??

What would that do to our national budgets/economies/ and the number of lazy surfin bums out there like moi??