[CarrotAndStick]

One thing really eludes me, and that is, how CAN the internet be controlled by ANYONE? I mean, servers and routers and optic fibre networks exist around the world, right? Or do all of these get plugged into some "internet centre" in America, and branch out from there?

[tfecw]

yeah it'd be a bureaucratic nightmare(or wet dream depending on your view point).

But it could technically be done. There would be some problems with the "underground" which I'm sure would arise if the net was ever regulated.