Okay - explain with your "superior grasp" why the government cannot wrest control of our access to the Internet away from us. If some podunk dictator can control.censor his country's access, our "leaders" can manage it with us. There might be some chinks in the wall, but most do not have knowledge/skills to leverage them.
"[snip] U.S.-based Cisco Systems and Canadian-based Nortel Networks are working closely with the People's Armed Police developing oppressive and intrusive computer systems to monitor, track and prosecute illegal Internet web browsers.
Nortel has contracts with Datang Telecom, a Chinese firm that works closely with the Chinese Ministry of State Security. Nortel has provided its "Personal Internet" suite to the MSS, allowing authorities to monitor and track nearly half of China's individual Internet users.
Nortel is currently working with the communist authorities in Shanghai to build a "Shasta 5000" firewall...."
---The Great Firewall of China
---Charles R. Smith, Friday, May 17, 2002
"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, [American] governments are instituted among men"
No one is saying that the government couldn’t shut down the internet. What I am saying is that shutting down these illegitimate name servers is not that attempt.