Cuba, Iran lash out at Internet freedom

Persian Journal ^ | Nov 18, 2005 | CNET News.com

[Larry Lucido]

I'm not Irish, but to quote Mike Moran, they can all kiss my royal Irish ass.

'Sides, by the time these turds figure out how to "take over" control of the internet, it will by then have become an anachronism, replaced by some sort of privately organized decentralized wireless system that they can't get their filthy hands on. Plus, they'll all probably be dead by then.

[M. Espinola]

The Internet will play a key part in bringing down the brutal dictatorships of both Cuba & Iran.

[Billthedrill]

This would be comic if it weren't that the EU came out in favor of it.

What these birds had in mind was nothing more than the same theft to which they've grown accustomed in their own countries. The scam supposedly would have started with replacing ICANN with a UN-related body for distributing IP addresses. It would have gone from there to dividing the address pool among developing countries and forcing the ones who needed addresses to pay just as the Kyoto agreement was structured with respect to emissions. From there an international internet tax would have been easy to institute, first for addresses and then for the passage of content, and so would monitoring and censorship of that content. Anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration may look at the people who are bleating here: Sudan, Cuba, Iran, China, Zimbabwe. To whose numbers we may add the European Union. That isn't a compliment.

[ncountylee]

I strongly suspect Hillary of having some of the same philosophy.

Only the conservative side.

[oldenuff2no]

I believe that most Americans agree that they really don't give a damn what Castro believes.
If he wants to control the Internet then he better invent his own.
We invented and developed it so we will control it. As for "too much free speech", that means anything that allows Cubans to hear the truth about what is going on in the world. Do we all understand what the word "Dictator" means?

[VeniVidiVici]

Cuba, Zimbabwe and Iran walk into a bar ...

[Lancer_N3502A]

"the Internet permits too much free speech and that the way it is managed must be reformed immediately"

Yea, well come on over and try and do something about it. We'll be waiting...

[Lancer_N3502A]

...walk into a COUNTRY BAR full of War on Terror vets...

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Socialism is NOTHING but theft.

Think about it: when was the last time a socialist produced something on his own?

[George W. Bush]

"Fidel Castro, the unflinching promoter of the use of new technologies,"...

"That imprisoned island nation..." - JFK

Still true. And the warden is a murderous nut-job.

[sagar]

"Socialism is NOTHING but theft.

Think about it: when was the last time a socialist produced something on his own?"

They only understand entitlements. Nevermind that US funded and invented the internet, and is best suited to guard it against commie cockroaches. Nevertheless, somehow, think they are entitled to it.

[MHak]

I can't wait to go to the workers paradise!

[Enchante]

Someone should do a "Weekend at Bernie's" type of parody movie, dealing with Fidel Castro as a corpse-like moron still nominally in charge of his country....