Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet

TechScam writes "A new resolution was introduced in Congress that aims to backup the Bush administration over retaining U.S. control of the Internet's core infrastructure. From the article: 'The resolution, introduced by two Republicans and one Democrat, aims to line up Congress firmly behind the Bush administration as it heads for a showdown with much of the rest of the world over control of the global computer network.'"

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Re:what drives this controversy?

[maxpublic]

Apparently it's okay to topple a brutal *European* dictatorship and restore freedom to Old World powers, but the moment we try to do the same in what used to be the oppressed colonial states of those Old World powers we're somehow evil, or at the very least misguided. I guess if Britain had gone in and deposed Saddam it'd be okay, 'cuz, like, they once brutalized that region of the world, and therefore they have some nebulous claim on it.

Not that I support the war, but that's simply because I could give a rat's ass over who's in charge in the area. Nor do I want to waste American lives toppling the other 80+ dictatorships in the world, as it seems that no one else cares to do the job and it'd be entirely up to us. Me, I'd rather return to a pre-1917 form of isolationism and let the world hash out it's own troubles, while we sell to whoever happens to be buying.

As an American, I'm damned tired of getting blamed for everything we do, then getting blamed again for everything we *don't* do. So why don't we just say "hey, fuck you all, we're going home" and let them deal with their own messes? Or at the very least let Europe take responsibility for the creation of the Third World in the first place, and give them a shot at fixing what they broke? Well, assuming they'd even try, since they weren't terribly interested in that whole Serbian Fourth Reich thing a few years back, and that was in their own back yard.

Max