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Tech Companies, Advocacy Groups Prepare to Take Final Stand Against U.N.’s Proposed Internet Control Treaty
November 26, 2012 at 6:17pm
The International Telecommunications Union was formed in 1865. It became an agency of the UN when the UN was formed. So the agency is much older than the UN, even though it is now part of it.