[varyouga]

ICANN assigns addresses to every server and ISP online. Like when you type freerepublic.com, ICANN's server finds the actual IP address of the FR server and connects you there.

There are several ICANN servers that hold every address and route all internet traffic. These are the brain of the internet and they could theoretically block access to any site or block entire countries/ISPs from using the internet. Being ultimately under US control frightens some countries.

If they don't like it, they should make their own internets and lay their own cables.

[dfwgator]

As Reagan said regarding the Panama Canal, "We Built It, We Paid for It, It's Ours!!!"

[Sprite518]

Bingo but the UN thinks its some how entitled to it. Even though the UN had absolutely nothing to do with it. Like you said, if they want a Internet, then let them build there own.