Yeah ... all of that may be an arguent for the UN presence since they change at the rough rate of pre golbal warming icebergs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lan Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:45 PM Subject: Re: Good reason why US should control Internet?....
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:15:18AM -0800, Christian Seberino wrote: > > > > I heard a good argument (I think) of why US should control > > the Internet and wanted to know if the smart & good > > people of KPLUG agreed..... > > > > As much as people bad mouth the US, I think we have the > > most protection for freedom and free speech. It is > > foolish to assume that a UN body or other countries > > would hold same value of freedom as we do. > > > > e.g. IIRC, > > > > In France it is illegal to disseminate Nazi info. > > > > In Canada it is illegal to have a non-PC opinion about homosexuality. > > > > In Muslim countries it is practically illegal to sneeze while looking at > > the Koran the wrong way. > > > > Can we honestly pretend rest of the world would not ruin the > > anarchistic freedom of the Internet? Hell, it is not clear > > US won't try to ruin it? (Think MPAA, RIAA, etc.) > > > > Chris > > I've been thinking about this and reading the various proposals, and I > haven't come up with an opinion about what I think would be best. I have > some conclusions that I think make good first principles for my > ruminations: > > - The internet has become an internationally important resource, and > having a nationalistic country control it is probably not a good plan > for the long run > > - Ideally, the controlling body should not be subject to political > pressure and political passions. I can't think of a way to insure that > now and for the future. Curiously, ICAAN may be the closest thing to > that right now. > > - Politicians the world over hate and fear (with good reason) the > uncontrolled flow of information. I'm surprised they've let it happen > this long. Expect demands from every corner to build technical controls > into internet traffic to "protect" us all from pornography, terrorism, > space aliens, evil daemons, and movie/music pirates. But mostly to > protect us from learning the truth. > > What I would like to see is a technical answer to the political pressure > ... multichannel routing that can't be throttled (or bugged), > distributed name spaces that can be citizen controlled (why can't KPLUG > have a name space and name server?), stuff like that. How could they put > toll booths and check points on the roads if we could all build our own > roads and add road signs? > > When it comes to information, I trust people over nations, and there > aren't any nations I trust more that any others. > > -- > Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
