Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:36 UTC
A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet. At the heart of this international political spat is the unique influence that the US federal government enjoys over Internet addresses and the master database of top-level domain names - a legacy of the Internet's origins years ago. The Bush administration recently raised objections to the proposed addition of .xxx as a red-light district for pornographers, for instance, a veto power that no other government is able to wield.
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RE[2]: AMERICAN CONTROL OF THE INTERNET
by on Wed 19th Oct 2005 18:56
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I hold a dual citizenship, Nigerian (37 years) and American (1 year) so I have an internationalist view of this non-issue.
This internet was created using research funds from the US defense department during the cold war to disperse and protect US data in the case of a nuclear attack. It has grown and prospered thanks mainly to the input of US capitalist corporations.
This invention was at a time when 2/3 of the world's population was betting on Socialism to overcome the US system. I was a student in Nigeria during this period and know first hand how Karl Marx was loved and how much the US was villified. Socialism imploded woefully and lost the argument. Now they want to smuggle it in through the back door of the UN. My response is: GO GET A LIFE YOU LOSERS AND BUILD YOUR OWN SYSTEM
With the flexibility and openness of DNS and TCP/IP nothing prevents any country from creating a parallel web and allowing or denying anyone they choose to share.