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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. The USA Register by _xeno_ · · Score: 5, Informative
    American readers (that's right, as in everyone in North America) might wanna try The USA Register site for (slightly) faster access since then you don't have to access a webserver that's across the pond.

    The story is available on the US site.

    I doubt Slashdot can Slashdot the Register, but it might help American readers, especially those who missed the creation of the USA Register. The USA Register is basically the same content as the Register, but it drops some of the UK specific news (as in, UK elections and other events that are unlikely to matter to people who don't live there). As far as I know, there is no US-specific content, but several of their writers turn out to live in the US - so who knows...

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  2. Re:But there _is_ a private French internet by absurd_spork · · Score: 4, Informative
    And that's why the Internet didn't turn into the world wide web in Europe

    Funny thing is: it did turn into the WWW in Europe. The WWW was developed at CERN, which is in Switzerland.

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