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Behind the Fight to Control the Internet
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "The battle over control of the Internet and ICann (previously slashdotted here and here) gets placed in broader context in the Wall Street Journal. The article explains the role of 'other nations' discomfort with the U.S. as the world's only superpower, unafraid of taking unilateral action,' a fear intensified by the U.S.'s move to halt the introduction of .xxx domains for pornography sites. In a related column, Frederick Kempe opens the floor for a debate between the diplomat leading talks for the U.S., and the former journalist from Luxembourg leading the effort to move the Internet away from U.S. control. 'Today, in a globalized world in which the Internet has become a global resource for freedom of expression and for economic exchange, this monopolistic oversight of the Internet by one government is no longer a politically tenable solution,' Viviane Reding says. Kempe also suggests ways the two sides can split the difference."
Please - For the last time - We dare you to start your own internet ...
Please do it - please please please!
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I think the danger is more to us 'Merkins forming our own splinter Internet, putting us in the same camp as other bastions of free speech like China and Saudi Arabia. The fact is that our own gummint meddled in Icann's business over .xxx and sparked this mess.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
What is all this talk about other countries getting control of the internet? Most other countries don't have the technical expertise to blow their own noses, much less run something as complicated as the internet. Perhaps these countries should try to create their own internets first, then join in with the main internet later. Anyway, the concept of foreign countries with their goofy names, strange languages, and weird cultures is so 20th century.
...as soon as every nation on the Internet returns our investment with interest on adjusted dollars. Then, I would have no problem with it for the most part.
The US didn't ban porn. The US Commerce Department didn't ban .xxx. They merely dropped support for a proposed TLD. This is a insignificantly trivial action. The only reason it's being brought up is to scare UN ambassadors into thinking they might not get their daily dose of German fisting videos.
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BULL FUCKING KAKA!
The U.S. built it, it's theirs. Tough shit that it's inconvenient for you: build your own. It's not the 'mericans fault that you now depend so desperately on something they built. Get along the way you did before!
This is a sorry excuse for coopting something useful with no investment of effort save the belief that theft requires less effort than work. I can't understand how anyone could consider that legitimate: it's rather like me building something out of thin air, and showing you how to build your own out of the thin air you have at your disposal, and yet, you still want mine.That's the gratitude I get for being generous enough to show you how to build your own? I think Fuck Off! is the appropriate response.
I wonder if there is some place where "Linus Torvalds" translates into "camel ass-fucker" or something equally vile. With this reasoning, the residents would petition that Linus be forced to change his name because he is so important and his current name is "inconvenient".
Bunch of damn communists, if you ask me. (Yeah, you didn't, but I've got karma so, nyeah, nyeah: mod me down.)
You could've hired me.
...invented gunpowder, so it's theirs forever. I expect you American rednecks to hand over your weapons to your local Chinese government official as soon as possible.
Screw the foreigners. Most of them live in a police state. England doesn't let "give Ireland back to the Irish" play on the radio. France is a joke with a government controlled media. Freedom was invented in America. The rest of the world needs to start thinking like us! We have 5% of the population and use 25% of the resources!!! Kick out your dictators and rise up against tiny cars that drive on the wrong side of the road, rise up against sky high taxes, rise up against Godless hippies and join America by creating your own copy where you live. Remember, the power comes from the people to the government - not the other way around!!! America was the first to solve world problems with nukes and I hope we never forget how to. ClaudeVMS
It's my analogy and you can't go changing it like that. If everyone else had built their own houses next to our house there wouldn't be a problem. It would be the French surrender monkeys going over to their own internet/house by themselves and doing whatever it is that surrender monkey french people do when they aren't surrendering to the Germans or arrogantly pretending they won World War I or II and then writing psycho books blaming Jewish people for the 9-11 attack. Instead, we've let them have rooms in the massive house and now they noisily natter on about how they wish they were the boss and how unfair the homeowner is. And you know what, nobody is paying any attention to the chittering low level noise of complaints. Really. You know, I just checked and "cheeseeatingsurrendermonkeys.com" is taken. Darn it.
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