The only arguments I ever hear in favor of letting the US in control of the World Wide Web are the following:
The US have been doing a great job.
We invented the internet!!!11one
Free Speech, Free Speech!
First of all, Hitler was doing a great job running Germany too, before he went all crazy and made the jews "lesser human". Sure, the US is doing a great job _now_, but what if there are some frictions between the US and some other country in the future, and the only way the US could hit that country, was to deny it access to the WWW? Would the US do that? It's possible, it's likely, even. You can't compare this to nukes because that country wouldn't be able to do anything back on the same scale. The fear of using nukes is that once you start, it never stops until the whole world is gone.
Second, the US did indeed invent the internet, but the internet would never have become what it is now, if it weren't for us Europeans who invented the World Wide Web. Yes, that's right, we've invented that thing that you're reading from atm. And that's what this discussion is about. It's not about the internet, the internet was designed so it's as redundant as possible. No one would care if the US suddenly dissallowed access to it's internet from outside the US. Well, probably most people would, because most spam received? Yep, 57% originates from the US. So stop the silly "we invented it!!11one" remarks, 'cause you don't. You're just making an ass out of yourself. Stop the spam comments as well.
Free speech? Americans yelling "free speech!" in every discussion is like (World \ Americans) yelling "Iraq!" in every discussion. It's so silly it hurts. You want the US to have a monopoly on the WWW in order to keep "Free Speech"? How does that compute? Of course, it's no solution to hand over control from one country to another, there should be some international organization that takes care of it. And once that's accomplished, your precious "Free Speech" will be even greater than before. Because like I said in #1, the US probably wouldn't be afraid to cut off a portion of the world.
Why does (World / US) want to get control of the WWW out of the US? The same reason why you wouldn't want some other country to control wether your trains, airplanes, etc, arrive at the correct location without you having any say in it.
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The only arguments I ever hear in favor of letting the US in control of the World Wide Web are the following:
First of all, Hitler was doing a great job running Germany too, before he went all crazy and made the jews "lesser human". Sure, the US is doing a great job _now_, but what if there are some frictions between the US and some other country in the future, and the only way the US could hit that country, was to deny it access to the WWW? Would the US do that? It's possible, it's likely, even. You can't compare this to nukes because that country wouldn't be able to do anything back on the same scale. The fear of using nukes is that once you start, it never stops until the whole world is gone.
Second, the US did indeed invent the internet, but the internet would never have become what it is now, if it weren't for us Europeans who invented the World Wide Web. Yes, that's right, we've invented that thing that you're reading from atm. And that's what this discussion is about. It's not about the internet, the internet was designed so it's as redundant as possible. No one would care if the US suddenly dissallowed access to it's internet from outside the US. Well, probably most people would, because most spam received? Yep, 57% originates from the US. So stop the silly "we invented it!!11one" remarks, 'cause you don't. You're just making an ass out of yourself. Stop the spam comments as well.
Free speech? Americans yelling "free speech!" in every discussion is like (World \ Americans) yelling "Iraq!" in every discussion. It's so silly it hurts. You want the US to have a monopoly on the WWW in order to keep "Free Speech"? How does that compute? Of course, it's no solution to hand over control from one country to another, there should be some international organization that takes care of it. And once that's accomplished, your precious "Free Speech" will be even greater than before. Because like I said in #1, the US probably wouldn't be afraid to cut off a portion of the world.
Why does (World / US) want to get control of the WWW out of the US? The same reason why you wouldn't want some other country to control wether your trains, airplanes, etc, arrive at the correct location without you having any say in it.