Re: Who controlls the Internet?

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Robert West wrote:

> Each individual government seems to control the information the enters or
> leaves their borders.

No, each individual government can have laws restricting information entering and leaving their borders.

Few gov'ts actually control said info.  The US gov't most certainly does not (despite the tin-foil-hat brigades 
protestations to the contrary).


> Do a search for "Internet Censorship Wikileaks".
> Every government has their own set of morals and standards and politically
> motivated black list.  Certainly the USA wants to swagger and force its will
> on not only its own people but the entire planet, but they are not alone.

Nice political blather.  What has it got to do on the point at hand.  (Also, I would be very happy if every gov't on 
the planet were as open with information exchange / lax on information control as the USG is.)


> Australia, China, North Korea, Germany........  Etc............  All with
> their own agenda.  It would be great if there was ONE entity that controlled
> content and each country had to abide by their decisions in order to have
> access to the backbone but that's only just a dream at this point.  The flat
> earth that should be the flow of information needs to be demanded by
> everyone.

I believe someone else explained just how stupid an idea that was.  So I will just add my voice to the idea that 
multiple unrelated entities running the 'Net is much better than a single, central control.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick