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How The U.S. Government Undermined the Internet
sakshale writes "The Register has an article about U.S. Government backed policy changes that have led ICANN to redelegate top level domains in such a way as to provide 'greater state-controlled censorship on the internet, reduce people's ability to use the internet to communicate freely, and leave expansion of the internet in the hands of the people least capable of doing the job'" More from the article: "At that meeting, consciously and for the first time, ICANN used a US government-provided reason to turn over Kazakhstan's internet ownership to a government owned and run association without requiring consent from the existing owners. The previous owners, KazNIC, had been created from the country's Internet community. ICANN then immediately used that 'precedent' to hand ownership of Iraq's internet over to another government-run body, without accounting for any objections that the existing owners might have."
That's a valid point, but there are lines that shouldn't be crossed. The kind of behavior demonstrated (yet again) by the US gov't almost always leads to crossing other lines, and in the case of the Bush administration, has obviously been a regular pattern over the last 6 years.
Will you feel the same way when the US gov't nationalizes the internet here by creating the USDNM (US Dept of Network Management) and ALL traffic to, from, or within the US goes through government hands and at the governments discretion?
I don't trust a government that lies as a matter of course (US), nor one who has no track record (Iraq). Why would I want them deciding what I can or can't see, or worse, keeping track of what I do see?
Karma whore extraordinaire.
Your posts are seriously full of ridiculous drivel, and I'm not afraid to say it using my name.
You are a clueless whelp and you make up uninformed bullshit as you go along. The saddest part is that you believe it all.
Those how most of these socialists on here react. Remember, the popular thing to do these days is to bash the US. It helps with the inferiority complex of these little socialists.
In Soviet US, the Government controls the Internet.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Dear Kazakhstan and Iraq: The U.S. owns you, the U.S. runs you.
Dear Internet nerds: Same.
Dear U.N.: Suck it.
You can't take the sky from me...
It may be worth pointing out that the protest march against the Iraq war in the UK was the largest ever recorded in that country and actually consisted of almost 3% of the entire population of the country - men, women and children - travelling to and marching in the capital.
More Europeans will come to see the light as the Islamists continue attacking Europeans in Europe.
Except that we know we've become a target because of the US, who in fact created the whole mess in the first place. Not that Iraq has anything to do with fighting Islamists, since Saddam and the Islamists hated each other's guts. Iraq was about oil, pure and simple.
I'm not sure that counts as alone and mistrusted.
There are countries in Iraq with the US simply because they want share of the oil and are afraid of what the US will do to them politically if they don't support them. The UK is a classic example of this. The populations of those countries mostly hate being involved in this shabby and fake war on terror, but that's mostly because they don't realise just how ruthless the US is when it doesn't get its way. If they did then they would probably agree that a few trillion barrels of oil aren't worth starting a real war over.
The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs, and then Viet Nam?
The US won the Cuban Missile Crisis, for which we're all very happy. The Bay of Pigs is a historical footnote of no importance and Nam ran on far longer after JFK's death than it did before, so who knows what he might have done different. It's hard to imagine it would have been worse!
Since he wasn't, Americans elected a Harvard MBA, former fighter pilot, and governor as president.
Ie, a drunk liar who's granddaddy got him out of the draft and bought him his governorship, while his brother won him the Presidency with fake fellon lists. An MBA is hardly a sign of great intelligence and GWB has displayed none since he came to power. His cabinet is stuffed with fantasists like Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and oil barons like Chaney and Rice. To call him incompetent is to display the inadequacies of the English language when faced with truly monumental lack of ability on every conceivable front. No more hopeless or worthless human being has ever besmirched the office of President of the United States. No greater hypocrite has ever wrapped himself in the Flag and Jesus while taking actions so directly opposite to what those stand for. Other than that, he's okay I guess.
We joined this war at the beginning.
That's what happens when you start a war, you tend to be there at the beginning.
I think we are doing fine.
In the sense that the main war aims (oil and terrorising the people of America) are being achieved, then I would have to agree with you.
There is some cause for concern since some Americans are actively working to undermine the war effort.
Yes, reporting law-breaking at the heart of government is practically treason.
What is especially troubling is that it is over a question of policy with a strong legal basis supporting it, as noted by former Clinton Associate Attorney General John Schmidt, and a long history.
Schmidt's reasoning is full of holes and basically boils down to "The president can do anything if he says it's to fight nasty foreigners" and is obvious bullshit. The same reasoning would allow any person in the street to be picked up and locked away forever simply by the president saying he was sure that he was acting as an agent of a foreign power. On the other hand, evidence is mounting that he is actually doing just that so perhaps it's moot anyway. The bottom line is that there are clear and easily understood procedures for what he did which include simple and easily understood systems for acting quickly. He ignored them because, frankly, he doesn't much give a shit about law. His grandpappy never did and neither did his da
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