Taming the Web

Thomas writes: "A story on Technology Review outlines the closer-to-reality-than-you-think fact that Internet regulations are right around the corner. It points out three false hopes held by web 'libertarians.' 1. the web is too international to control. 2. the net is too interconnected to fence in. 3. the net is full of hackers that are impossible to control. This is a good read." Bingo.

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The Internet Will Never Be Successfully Regulated

[Kiss The Sp0rk]

It is folly to attempt to regulate the Internet. Look at the facts:

- The internet has been around for more than two decades, during which time it has managed to elude being regulated in any meaningful way, anywhere in the world.
- The internet stretches across national boundaries. For regulation to be successfully carried out, an international body would need to be involved.
- Now that we have web servers in space, even international bodies will be powerless to censor the internet.
- The skills of hackers and crackers will summarily overcome any attempts by government to lock-down the internet. If hackers can infiltrate the most secure military computers of the greatest nation on earth, how will the US, but more especially, the rest of the world, ever regulate the internet?

The facts are there. Attempts to regulate the web will always fail. The internet is new and different, PERIOD! Those who would attempt to govern it in the current, obsolete way are forever doomed to disappointment.

Hypocrisy

[Anonymous Coward]

Michael's one to bitch about anyone controlling or censoring the web, after what he did to censorware.org.

Michael is the wrong person to be posting Your Rights Online stories, considering what he did there.