What is it about so many left-leaning politicians that cause them to see everything as a zero-sum game?

Too much English on Net, warns expert

EXPERTS at a UN forum on internet governance warned that the predominant use of English on the worldwide web needs to be checked before it crowds out other languages.

They fear forms of cultural knowledge accumulated over centuries of human progress could be lost for ever.

“Some 90 per cent of 6000 languages (at use today) are not represented on the internet,” said Yoshinori Imai of NHK, Japan's Broadcasting Corporation.

“These people could be left out in the desert of no information and no knowledge,” he said. [1]

For those of you who aren't familliar with how this "Internet" (and these things called "blogs") work, and why this is such a danger, I will explain:

(1) I, as a would-be blogger, contact the North American Internet Authority (located in Des Plaines, New York) and request a certain number of "web pages" to use over the next year.

(2) The NAIA, in turn, consults with a number of web-page storage warehouses, located on different continents, where the "web pages" are stored until they are needed by website creators.

(3) Since there are only a finite supply of these "web pages" (they were discovered in seabeds off the coast of the US and India, and were completely mined out in the 90s, during the "dot-com" boom -- the remaining supply was mostly recycled from failed dot-coms), they must carefully allocate who will and will not be receiving their allotted quota of web pages.

(4) If my request is granted, a truck pulls up to my house one a year bearing several cartons of 'web pages' which I can then place on my 'web site'.

So, as you can plainly see, the world's supply of these "web pages" is now (or probably will be soon!) running dangerously low, and every single "web page" allotted for English-language use is taken away from a would-be !Kung or Sanskrit web designer -- who will have to explain to his starving children why daddy has no work. (And why nobody will be able understand them when they they grow up.)

Once again, the Imperialistic West's copious output of web pages is revealed to come at the direct expense of the poor third-world masses, whose rightful web pages have been stolen by our greed and avarice.

Clearly, the UN needs to take control of this threat, and forcibly reduce the dangerously high levels of English-language "web pages" in order to create more "space" for web pages written in the "crowded out", endangered languages.

(After we create alphabets for those languages, that is.)

I personally recommend the UN put the French in charge, as usual.