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Originally Posted by mortenb
I would so like to argue about this with you for hours, but my english is not good enough for that..
One thing though.. How can it be a bad thing to share control over something we all use to a joint advantage every day? You talk of a world wide taxation.. There is a bit more to the world than the internet..
And another thing.. I fail to see how my answering Greg's statement that Europeans exploit children or his calling Europeans dumb drunk fuckups is obfuscation or deflecting.. He basically ended his post be calling us leeches.. So I gave back.. If you have a problem with that then you are as narrowminded as he is and can go fuck yourself..!
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I am not calling Europeans morons, as in reading all the articles, the EU is trying to mediate this as they too are scared shitless about the thought of the 3rd world having a role in the deployment and maintenance of the Internet. I have lived in Europe, and like most Americans, I am of European descent. BUT I am a capitalist, FIRST. The control of the internet should be in the hands of its creator, the tax payers of the USA. OUR TAX DOLLARS funded DARPA, OUR TAX DOLLARS STILL FUND ICANN. OUR elected officials do not want to release control, as the people of this country do not want to release control.
The internet has allowed me, and many people around the world to make millions of dollars. Trillions combine. To see it handed to a bunch of one worlders, and ANTI-capitalists would be a nightmare. Everything runs REAL smooth right now and has run smoothly. Keeping the bandwidth in the hands of private industry (AT&T, UUnet, Level3, C&W, etc) has done well. Keeping the IP allocations, and control of the root servers in the hands of ONE entity has done well. To potentially FRAGMENT the existing system and introduce the potential of sabotage is moronic.
This entire situation is about pulling 'control' away from the USA's 'perceived' empire. The one thing the USA has let run, without taxation, and interference has been the Internet, why fuck it up now?