ITU not trying to take over the Internet, Ottawa telecom crowd told (Ed note: OK, but...)

OTTAWA – The speculative feedback loop that are web rumours are rife with accusations that the United Nations or the International Telecommunications Union want to “take over the Internet.” “Let me say quite plainly and clearly: This is simply ridiculous,” ITU secretary general Dr. Hamadoun Touré told delegates of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association conference on tower siting yesterday in Ottawa. The speculation sown online by some mainstream media outlets, backed up by endless rumour repetition in the blogosphere the Twitterverse are fed by the fact there is a meeting scheduled in Dubai in December called the World Conference on...