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To: Jim Robinson

“The Internet”

It’s the name commonly given to the interconnection of multiple computers. Some computers are servers - they serve files to the client computers. Client computers ask for files from a server. The computers communicate by putting out messages following a certain set of rules, or protocol.

There is no one object or thing that one can put one’s finger on and say “This is the internet.” It’s the interconnection (see above).

It has no central control point. There is no way to control the internet.

That won’t stop the fascists in the UN and in Washington. They want to tax and control. The inevitable result of their taxing and control is destruction.

Brilliant minds conceived the internet (not Al Gore). It has worked beatifully without government sticking its hands in. So, naturally, now government is going to put its inept hands in it and totally destroy it.

They can only destroy what normal people have built up.


13 posted on 11/26/2012 2:06:58 PM PST by I want the USA back (Liberalism is an incurable failure of the mind's ability to think rationally.)
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To: I want the USA back

Dunno.
Aren’t there backbones that carry vast amounts of information between networks, core routers that direct their flow, and organizations that allocate IPs and Domain Names?
Control of that infrastructure and the organizations controlling domain names and IP allocation might amount to control of the “Internet.”


27 posted on 11/26/2012 6:18:03 PM PST by Little Ray (I have VOTED AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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