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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."
Damned US imperialists!
Just look at Iraq
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
"Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me!" - Pete Conrad
I'm curious, with Gore having been the father of the Internet, and with Gore wanting to spread US power among UN nations, what would he have done were he President?
I've become quite a cynic in my old age (25), and I really don't see why there's any problem at all. If the entire DNS standard were to fall off the face of the Interweb, we'd just see another service pop up. The Internet doesn't rely on it at all, and DNS is probably not going to last much longer, anyway.
I say if you don't like DNS, just make your own overlay, base it on IPv6, and have the upper hand...and quit whining. Demanding control of DNS is like demanding that Instant Messenger services give up their networks.....
-Benjamin Vander Jagt
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..."
World: Pictures and video of preteen pussy should be legal
USA: No
World: But they're hot
USA: Sicko
World: Jerkwad
USA: Preteen vagina
World: Now you're getting it
USA: *slobber* I love Natalie Portman....... when she was 9!
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.
Care to back up that assertion with some facts? Seriously. I don't see the US fighting for "free speach" anywhere, it's all information management and lies until the lies get proven beyond all doubt and they have to come clean. Do I need to provide examples of this??
And it's US companies that are destroying the free and open nature of the internet, in case you didn't notice. Perhaps you might want to practice what you preach; remember the great firewall of china was built by you. Where is this "little-to-no censoring" you speak of? Your ideals do not match your actions.
Your argument that the US should control it for the greater good doesn't hold water anymore.
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!
And no one in the US really confuses the UN and the EU. The UN has its own host of reasons to be disliked without bringing in the blithering twits of the EU.
Personally, I don't care how is controlling the Internet
Which merely demonstrates your naivety and the very ignorance of which you are accusing everyone else.
Finally, as far as I know, the UN is not a "nation". It doesn't have a nationality. This seems to be a thing that most people tend to forget. Also, I have understood that the UN does not have a single body or single agenda, which it is trying to pursue.
Again, you prove you are a naive little pig ignorant fool.
OK, now I stop this ranting. Sorry if my opinions hurt somebody.
Not really. They are too pathetic, uninformed and laugable to have any potential to hurt.
It just pisses me off to see this black and white thinking I've seen lately when reading news and forum postings.
Yeah, there's no black and white thinking anywhere else in the world. Blinkered idiot. I won't apologize for my comments because I know they will just bounce off the solid neutronium shield of ideology that shelters your mind from objective reality.
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.
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.