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2005-11-16 International-UN-NGOs

Government showdown could break up Internet, experts warn

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Posted by Spot 2005-11-16 08:13|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mr. Shaw is a bureaucrat of the first order. If he is an internet expert, then I'm Bill Gates' personal piss bucket boy.

Posted by badanov 2005-11-16 09:32|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-11-16 09:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Just offer then some goats and starving children. That should keep them too busy to mess with non criminal matters.

Posted by badanov 2005-11-16 09:35|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-11-16 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 If a country or group of countries doesn't like the way the internet is being run, they can shut down access and/or set up their own competing network - don't they already do that? If enough people don't like the way the current network works, would they not switch over to a 'superior' UN-based network (carry an umbrella to protect yourself from excrement from flying pigs)?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-11-16 12:10|| 2005-11-16 12:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm pretty sure a coalition of countries will create a seperate internet that they can censor. I'm pretty sure users of the regular internet will also be ablet o access this censornet but the censored nations will be unable to access the internet. I'm also pretty sure a few politicians will be thrown out and possible a government or two overthrown as they try to transition to the new censornet.

Let it be.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-11-16 12:21|| 2005-11-16 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 It seems like three main groups will be effected by this, academics, expats, and multinationals. Academics, FOAD. Expats, sorry, you're too small to matter. Multinationals, interesting question.

If China decides to cut itself off from non-China internet or to create its own multinational internet that will not interface with the US internet, what will multinationals in China do? Set up their own satellite links to the internet?

I'm still trying to figure out why I care if China and Saudi Arabia set up their own internet. It's not like Xinhua has the best cheesecake shots around.

Posted by Thrinesh Elmeth2110 2005-11-16 12:36|| 2005-11-16 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Cutting China off from the internet is not an option. The entire export manufacturing business runs on email and MSN chat.

They could beef up the Great Firewall, though, and make it not so painfully slow to go through. *sigh*

Posted by gromky">gromky 2005-11-16 14:12|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2005-11-16 14:12|| Front Page Top

#7 In idle moments, I have always wondered whether Intel, AMD, Cisco, and Microsoft had ever been "coopted" into the US National Cause - such that their products has built-in "something" that allows the US to - in a pinch - modify/access/turn off activity being run through those systems. It would be interesting to let the "second world" launch their own internet - but with all Inytel, AMD, Cisco, and Microsoft systems unable to operate with that alternate system. Let market forces drive the consumer decisions - if anyone wants to use US technology, they must play on our teerms. If not - hey, no problem. You just have to find compatible platforms to support your alternative system.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2005-11-16 19:23|| 2005-11-16 19:23|| Front Page Top

#8 LR, lay off the Ludlum.

Posted by Chetle Glater1707 2005-11-16 19:31|| 2005-11-16 19:31|| Front Page Top

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