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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. 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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