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US Keeps Control of the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-thank-good-thats-all-settled-once-and-for-all dept.

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."

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  1. Re:The Minutes Of The Meeting by SillyWilly · · Score: 1, Troll

    An example of American freedom of speech - making it illegal to join the communist party...

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  2. Re:Still good by Shaper_pmp · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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