[wg-review] Nader Calls For World Consumer Protection Organization in Internet

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41106,00.html

    Nader Wants Internet Control
    by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com) and Nicholas Morehead

    8:25 a.m. Jan. 10, 2001 PST
    WASHINGTON -- To most people, the Internet is a way to
communicate, an
    untapped business opportunity, or a symbol of dot-com greed run
amok.

    Not so Ralph Nader. The former Green Party presidential
candidate sees
    an opportunity for a new global bureaucracy.

    On Tuesday, Nader called for the creation of a "World Consumer
    Protection Organization," comparable to the United Nations'
World
    Intellectual Property Organization, only "more democratically
run."

    Nader, at a National Press Club event, said the proposed WCPO
would
    focus on regulation of privacy, e-commerce, intellectual
property,
    antitrust and Internet governance -- areas he said affected
consumers
    directly.
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