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Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet

Posted by Zonk on from the shocker-there dept.

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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  1. Free spech... by marcosdumay · · Score: 1, Troll

    It is interesting to see that U.S. says that it is defendding free spech, while U.N. says exactly the same, that it is defending freedom of expression (check here)...

    Very interesting, because freedom of speech for U.N. seems to be: "We want a rich public domain and no government looking into our conversation.", and for U.S., it seems to be: "If they make racism illegal, the next one will be porn.". I can see why U.S. government is concerned by the U.N. idea of free speech, but I can't see how U.S. people can't realize that the second argument is a non sequitur.

    Also, I loved that phrase:
    "Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today"

    Let's forget that the U.S. viewed today as exaclty a country with problematic human-rights records and questionable taxation practices! Let's blame the rest of the World for those thigs.

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  2. Re:what drives this controversy? by Gordonjcp · · Score: 1, Troll
    it has nothing to do with jealousy and everything to do with not letting the most aggressive nation on earth have control over a critical resource.


    Fuck it, let them have it.


    Then the US can wall off their own little Internet, and pretend the rest of the world isn't out there. We'll let them keep using HTTP, and the general concepts of the World Wide Web (a European invention). It will stop all the spam from mouthbreathing Comcast users, for the rest of us. I don't really see a downside.


    The US will wall itself off more and more, making it harder to get in and out of the country. Eventually it will make itself entirely irrelevant to the rest of the world. There will be occasional showy displays of power that it can't affort, until its own economy collapses in on itself and it breaks up into lots of unstable little countries and the UN has to come in and sort it out.


    Now I come to write it down, that sounds a bit familiar...