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A Private European Internet?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dns-is-a-consensus-reality dept.

jakemk2 writes "Bill Thompson writing in The Register advocates a private European Internet to stop the fact that it has "been so extensively abused by the United States and its politicians, lawyers and programmers that it has become a serious threat to the continued survival of the network as a global communications medium" Read it here" His logical fallacy is , of course, thinking that the US has a monopoly on this kind of thing.

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  1. As Bender would have said it... by ethelred · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll just make my own Internet. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the Internet!

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  2. MWWW by ThereIsNoSporkNeo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah yes.

    And in the year 2002 the MWWW (Mostly World Wide Web) was created, after the previous attempt, the WWW (World Wide Web) was determined to be too worldwide. The only people prevented from joining the MWWW were inhabitants of the USA and a guy from Britain named Murphy who no one liked anyway.

    Next, we come to the robot wars of 2027...

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  3. See, the *real* private French Internet... by Marc2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...would be inpenetrable, thanks to a heavily fortified firewall that spans the length of eastern France, dubbed the "Maginot Firewall".

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  4. Re:Wow... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Funny

    God forbid anyone should design their own site...such things should be left to professionals. HTML is deprecated, the web needs to move to exclusively Flash content in order to preserve sanity, as well as good-paying jobs. Indeed, legislation should be enacted that only allows properly licensed individuals to produce and publish web content, as the great unwashed masses have proven criminially incompetent at doing so.

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  5. Re:Bill Thompson by SIGFPE · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks for reminding me, Bill, why my ancestors left that ever diminishing and less relevant mound in the North Atlantic to come to America

    Because they were such a bunch of raving Puritans nobody in Europe would tolerate them?
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  6. Re:trolled by slashdot again by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't click two links without seeing white, blue and red, a reference to US, God bless America, Brightest Beacon Of Freedom, etc, etc. Tell me, do you know another country that sells itself so much as America?

    Partial solution: get a monochrome monitor.

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