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...but worst case, just create a new internet and leave them holding the porn-laden bag?

I have thought through that scenario. Some smart pup would bridge between the two internets with a Timex Z-80, or S-100 box, or a Cray, or something, just so he could get his porn, and suddenly, there is once again... one internet.

In every thought experiment I have run, there is exactly one internet per populated planet, and no government can control it.

Intranets are subsets, and generally have serious problems in not merging with the internet. A parallel internet will eventually merge with the other. There can be only one.

/john

Monte Carlo simulations in your head? My eyes glaze over thinking about it. But doesn't this creativity that inadvertently integrates bipolar systems also mean that there's a snowball's chance in the Sahara of successfully "controlling" it in the first place?

reply to: "Intranets are subsets, and generally have serious problems in not merging with the internet. A parallel internet will eventually merge with the other. There can be only one."

Kind of reminds me of Abraham Lincoln, June 1858,
for some odd reason:

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.