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US Keeps Control of the Internet
Adam Schumacher writes "As a result of a a deal reached late Tuesday, the US and ICANN will maintain control over the Internet's core systems. A new body will be created to provide international oversight, which will, of course, have no binding authority."
I am rather happy the US gets to keep control over the internet. The last thing we would need is for some other European Country or Asian Country taking control and screwing things up. Even if they DO threaten to create their own DNS System etc etc etc, they won't. They would alienate themselves and be like:
"Look we have our own Internet system, what you gonna do now, US?!"
"We simply won't update to allow you access to the REAL Internet, mawahahaha!"
-- Josh
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The US tries to control the world, where Europe only asks to be part of a worldwide computer-infrastructure.
"Honey, I feel a certain distance between us..." "Really? A 31ms ping ain't that bad..."
Well, the Chinese bloggers, Iranian dissidents, Christians hiding in Saudi Arabia, and just about anyone else who would suffer a crack-down have another day to live.
Yes, but it won't please the "anybody but the US" crowd of whining nitpickers who will only ruin the internet. Imagine if the UN gained control?
God, that would be a train wreck. Like the oil for food program, the corrupt UN government would sell favors to irreputable people, siphon money, and generally bring the whole process to a stand still.
Damn, imagine, say something negative about China's leadership? Get your website, hosted in Idaho, taken offline. Say something about Tibet, or a Free Taiwan? Probably get jail time.
Of course, you would be free to show video and photos of heads being hacked off, slowly, while the screaming victim moans their last. So long as it's a US ally getting their head chopped off.
An example of American freedom of speech - making it illegal to join the communist party...
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*First time I have ever thought multiple exclamation marks was justified.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
Simple. Nationalism, Patriotic, etc. I have no allegence to Microsoft and so I don't want to see them succeed over another product. I do have allegence to my nation (despite it's flaws, it is the best place I'd like to live). I want my nation to succeed.
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Thanks for this post. Spares me to do the exact same.
US foreign policy gets more and more interesting over the years. The world will just have to wait until the good guys are at it.
I don't have much to add.
Isn't it the USA that has mandatory ID cards and foreign prisons with torture facilities?
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How typical of so many African and European countries, sit idle and watch the US pay for it, then demand a part of it.
The UK (Tim Berners-Lee) and Europe (CERN) invented the thing. The US wouldn't even have "an internet" if if had been patented, or if the IP hadn't been made freely available and licence-unencumbered...
And if there's one thing the US is world-famous for in modern times, it's wading into other people's countries, snaffling everything it wants and telling them what to do.
Before getting on your high horse I'd first check it's not a shetland pony.
Everything in moderation, including moderation itself
Oh great, the U.S. just decided to donate 25% of their IP addresses to Sub Saharan Africa. Now I gotta dick around with NAT all day while Mugabi and his fuckwads get to surf pr0n from a Class A. Fuck that!
Can you say: "McCarthyism"?
That wasn't so long ago was it? The consequences of it still affect the thinking of Americans today in their bigotry (yes, bigotry) towards Communists and people with more left-wing ideas and beliefs.
But a private corporation should be? Riiiiiiight....
fuck you.
I'll say it one more time: I'm not a Communist, and nor do I support them.
As for the rest of it: half the problems and deaths in the last century were caused by the US and its meddling in other countries' internal affairs. A large part of the Soviet Union's behaviour was caused through its fear of the US and its aggressive behaviour.