Ramon Casha wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 13:36 +0200, Iain Sims wrote: > >>Often these laws are against those who are not citizens of the US, but >>are considered dangerous to the US. They affect you, I and the average >>man not one iota. >> > You may need to explain that to quite a substantial number of US > citizens who feel that the patriot act and similar laws are eroding > their civil liberties little by little. And I'm not talking about some > fringe conspiracy theory group, but mainstream politicians etc. Many > feel that some of the legislation introduced in the aftermath of 9/11 > was overly hasty and should now be revised.
Again, I fail to see what relevance these issues have on you, me, DNS root servers, etc. Sounds like a lot of hot air over US political direction. >>The US has not censored the content of the Internet. >> > It's not necessarily a matter of censorship, though that too is a > concern. Anything from trademark disputes over domain names, As I understand, this is handled by ICANN: http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm > taxation > (some in the US are in favour of taxing internet use), Locally. Their choice. But they're not suggesting collecting taxes from Maltese residents for accessing playboy.com. > preferential > treatment on national grounds and so on. As has been done when in the past?? > There is no reason for the US > government to get so directly involved in the net, and even if there > were a problem it should be treated at an international level. 'so directly involved'?? Pretty passive role. And in any case, the Internet has grown out of a US government project. It's their toy, they can claim the right to play with it as they see fit. > The internet is somewhat unique in that political boundaries don't exist > and that it's pretty self-governing, and I don't like the idea of having > the internet get mired in political parties, governments and so on. This has not happened so far. >>I'm for the continuing status quo. >> > Well what inspired this thread is that the status is no longer quo. Nothing has changed and the US says that they cannot foresee an imminent change. Status quo. Regs. Iain. -- Web: http://www.mein.it Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! IM: expat_iain ICQ: 224055739 SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +356 21 376 326 GSM: +356 99 296 296
