haha screw off you nonUSA cunts: we still OWN teh internet!

[stocktroll]

America just cant do anything right can it? we fricken save the world from hitler and still get hated on
we even invent the internet and its infrustructure for global connectivity but noooo yall want to take that from us too and prolly mess it all up
and even if you are a moron who thinks the UN can manage the internet more efficiently with the influence of noobs like China, TOO BAD we're still going to control it so deal with it or just get off OUR internet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4441544.stm

[Tormentius]

America just cant do anything right can it? we fricken save the world from hitler and still get hated on
we even invent the internet and its infrustructure for global connectivity but noooo yall want to take that from us too and prolly mess it all up
and even if you are a moron who thinks the UN can manage the internet more efficiently with the influence of noobs like China, TOO BAD we're still going to control it so deal with it or just get off OUR internet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4441544.stm

Wow...words can't really describe the stupidity and arrogance of that post.

[seremtan]

were you regularly beaten up at school?

edit: @ stockfool

[Guest]

I think it's funny.

[eepberries]

Guys. You miss the point. Look at his username

[Canis]

The US had stood firm against this, arguing that it would stifle technological advance and increase censorship of the internet by undemocratic regimes.

Damn straight....fucking evildoers!

[+JuggerNaut+]

when you reach 55 years of age, you're considered _____

[Massive Quasars]

I support US control of the internet, they seem least likely to chip away at online freedoms. Even as all parties want some influence, the US seems least likely to impose it.

[Massive Quasars]

least likely doesn't necessarily equate to unlikely though

[^misantropia^]

or just get off OUR internet

What would the US do if the rest of the world collectively decided to do just that? Setting up an alternate Internet is mostly a matter of firing up new root DNS servers. The necessary infrastructure is already there.

[prince1000]

when you reach 55 years of age, you're considered _____

youthanised

[prince1000]

also, shanghai is fucking amazing. spent october jetting between HK and shanghai, staying at these crazy hotels, shooting for travel mags and various acrhitects. american architects. all my contacts were american. sooo much american investment heading over there. the west is a has been. iraq? hello?

ill try to up some snaps i took...

[Cory]

or just get off OUR internet

What would the US do if the rest of the world collectively decided to do just that? Setting up an alternate Internet is mostly a matter of firing up new root DNS servers. The necessary infrastructure is already there.

I for one, wouldnt give a fuck.

[Grudge]

stocktroll exactly represents why everyone hates the US

[MKJ]

what a dolt
it isnt an INTERnet if it isnt INTERnational, smarty

[Canis]

what a dolt
it isnt an INTERnet if it isnt INTERnational, smarty

INTER-NETworked computers...dolt!

[Canis]

or just get off OUR internet

What would the US do if the rest of the world collectively decided to do just that? Setting up an alternate Internet is mostly a matter of firing up new root DNS servers. The necessary infrastructure is already there.

Couldnt happen...the world isnt that well coordinated.

[horton]

i would much rather be on the internet controlled by Americans, than something controlled by China or whatever other cunty nation wants to censor it.

They havent removed all the porn or dodgy warez sites, so no complaints from me.

[Doombrain]

Grrrr. I'm really anrgy about the internet.

[farad]

...obligatory once a month post...

[+JuggerNaut+]

also, shanghai is fucking amazing. spent october jetting between HK and shanghai, staying at these crazy hotels, shooting for travel mags and various acrhitects. american architects. all my contacts were american. sooo much american investment heading over there. the west is a has been. iraq? hello?

ill try to up some snaps i took...

WOW. :icon28:

[Mat Linnett]

ZING!

[hax103]

or just get off OUR internet

What would the US do if the rest of the world collectively decided to do just that? Setting up an alternate Internet is mostly a matter of firing up new root DNS servers. The necessary infrastructure is already there.

Clearly some nation should try. I suspect that it would fall flat and embarrass the hell out of the country.

[hax103]

LOL!!

bittorrent, porn and warez control the world

i would much rather be on the internet controlled by Americans, than something controlled by China or whatever other cunty nation wants to censor it.

They havent removed all the porn or dodgy warez sites, so no complaints from me.

[iambowelfish]

i would much rather be on the internet controlled by Americans, than something controlled by China or whatever other cunty nation wants to censor it.

They havent removed all the porn or dodgy warez sites, so no complaints from me.

No, but there has been US government pressure to force all porn sites onto .xxx domains.

And since obscenity is defined as "I know it when I see it" then the line could be pretty much drawn wherever.

Here's a plausible scenario:

Sites with information about abortion or whatever else the American government decides it doesn't like, could be forced to take .xxx or some other dodgy sounding domain. Then business and educational networks, and maybe even ISPs, are pretty much forced by popular, misinformed opinion, to block that domain completely. Then, politically sensitive information on certain issues has been effectively censored (not to mention all the pr0n).

Maybe that wouldn't happen in today's political climate. But things change quickly and if you have the internet controlled by any one country then the door is left open for stuff like that.