On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:41:05PM -0400, Robert West wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Robert West [mailto:robert.w...@just-micro.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:56 PM
To: 'Tarig Yassin'
Subject: RE: Who controlls the Internet?
Each individual government seems to control the information the enters or
leaves their borders.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.
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.
Not all states (or people for that matter) agree with Voltaire's view of free
speech. If our democratically accountable, and elected government wants to ban
hate speech/child porn/$OTHER_ILLEGAL_CONTENT, and puts in an accountable
method of dealing with it, I find it hard to see why the US view of free speech
should prevail over that choice.
That's my 13 cents worth.
(Inflation sucks)
But who am I but just a thinking and caring animal of this planet?
Bob-
-Original Message-
From: Tarig Yassin [mailto:tariq198...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 1:24 PM
To: nanog
Subject: Who controlls the Internet?
Deal all
I want to show you some obstacles that some countries face them every day.
For example when users from Sudan trying to access some web site they will
get a *Forbidden Access Error* message.
And some messages say: you are forbidden to access this web site because
your IP address appears form country black listed due to USA government
policy.
I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet?
ThanksTarig
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