Posted on 10/06/2005 5:55:46 PM PDT by Blogger
That's right. As usual, it's all about the $$$. Now that the UN oil-for-food pot 'o gold scam has dried up, the vampires are out scavenging. And of course they want to censor, especially China. Who knows, maybe China (and some other exemplary nations like Iran) have promised some kickbacks if this stunt can be pulled off. Follow the money trail...
Money isn't the only thing they are after. The Chinese would love to limit content as well.
Yup, just one salvo, you're right. We create and the laggards around the world start whining.
MM
Actually, a new fiber optic network was just
tested that can transmit whole movies in a
matter of seconds.
But here is an interesting story related to our
topic:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5889592.html
How, exactly are these weenies going to "force" the USA to do anything?
Go ahead, build your own, Aholes.
Sad
"The Chinese would love to limit content as well."
The money is first though. The content can be controlled at any time, in many ways. If in one swoop they can get the US to start paying taxes to the UN they get an administrative "in" to the US.
The democrats have been doing this for years. If you tax something you need officials and programs to be sure you are getting all the tax and that the tax is going to the "right" uses. So you also have records of where users go and what they see.
With the records and monitoring comes control of content. But first get the money so you can make your government agency even bigger and better at monitor and control functions.
It always comes back to the money when government is involved.
How are you going to stop them from
seizing *A* building in their own county?
"If YOU want an internet, go build one yourself, Socialist scum..."
Yup he invented it and therefore,they have "no controlling legal authority".
In a way i agreee with you. While most internet
traffic, tends to be "local" as in by country
and region, there is no unique hardware made
in only the US that maintains the WWW, a great
deal of the traffic that is *not* "local"
involves US sites, and commerce with US companies.
There is no technical barrier to other countries
maintaining a network, independant of US controlled
TLDs and oversight, but it defeats the promise
of the Internet by cutting off access and opportunities
by doing so.
Sure, since as stated before, US citizens mostly
visit US websites, French visit mostly French websites,
etc...The US could cut off it's connections to foriegn
Servers, and even build a bigger better faster
Internet 2.0..or 3.0...but it is intrinsically
a limiting action. and as you say, as each squabbling
country/bloc decides that they must have/remake the "Internet" in their own image, interoperability
will break down....and there is litle good that comes from that other than some paranoids around the world, feeling "safer" because they can control the information
traveling on their truncated and annexed "piece" of the "net". Instead of being the great leveler of
opportunities, that it has been, it would become a great isolator, and diminisher of opportuntes.
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