Who Should Run The Internet?

from the I-should dept

Here's an opinion piece suggesting that the US government take a bigger role in "running the internet". The writer doesn't give much of a reason for why this should be needed, and seems to suggest the only potential downside would be censorship (apparently, slowing down the adoption of new internet technologies and/or mandating bad or obsolete technologies isn't a downside). He also doesn't explain what he means by "run" the internet, other than "protecting the Net's physical and network infrastructure". I don't quite see how the government could do that anyway. Basically, the writer is saying that "man, the internet sure is messy, and since I can't think of a way to clean it up, we should let the government waste money on it."
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    Huh, 7 Feb 2003 @ 6:03am

    USA?

    Why the USA? In total I suspect that there are more internet users outside the USA so why shouldn't all those governements run it?

    Typical blinkered comment from a USAn

    (My apologies to those unblinkered USAns)

    link to this | view in chronology ]

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      Mike (profile), 7 Feb 2003 @ 8:08am

      Re: USA?

      Yeah, I had thought about that too, but if you read the article, he's clearly talking about controlling it's security IN THE US.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

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    umi, 12 Aug 2007 @ 8:56pm

    hi....

    i think google or yahoo need run the internet.

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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