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An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands

Posted by timothy on from the no-let's-give-it-to-the-UN's-human-rights-council dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ariel Rabkin has a piece over at News Corp.'s Weekly Standard arguing that the US should maintain its control over the Internet. After reading his piece, I have a hard time arguing that it should be handed over to some international body."

8 of 607 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Real summary: by Millennium · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoa. Godwinned in only three posts.

  2. Re:Real summary: by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, a Godwin-First-Post hybrid. The force is strong in this one.

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  3. Give control to Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're generally impartial and if we ever make a mistake we'll apologize for it.

    Actually, even if the mistake isn't our fault, we'll apologize anyway. That's the Canadian way.

  4. Re:Real summary: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, a Godwin-First-Post hybrid. The force is strong in this one.

    No. That's not the force. That's just a greased up Yoda doll pressing on his brain.

  5. Re:Why mess with it by harryandthehenderson · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember when DNS registr* wasn't an extortion racket?

    No. When did this magic day exist?

  6. Seems easy enough by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Political questions like "Who is the rightful government of Pakistan?" are settled by the U.S. Department of State.

    Nope, I can't see anything wrong here. Everything is as it should be. Move along, citizens.

  7. Re:Seriously? by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look, nothing against Tim Berners-Lee, but I keep seeing this growing meme that he somehow fathered the entire blessed Internet.

    When we _all_ know that it was an American who did that.

    Al Gore.

  8. Re:Seriously? by Thiez · · Score: 5, Funny

    > The US keeping control however will simply bread more resentment toward the US.

    It's part of a plan to collect a huge amount of resentment bread, then use that bread to feed the poor and bring about world peace. How can you be against that?