Re: FW: Who controlls the Internet?

[Cian Brennan <cian.brennan () redbrick dcu ie>]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:41:05PM -0400, Robert West wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert West [mailto:robert.west () just-micro com] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:56 PM
> To: 'Tarig Yassin'
> Subject: RE: Who controlls the Internet?
>
> Each individual government seems to control the information the enters or
> leaves their borders.    Do a search for "Internet Censorship Wikileaks".
> Every government has their own set of morals and standards and politically
> motivated black list.  Certainly the USA wants to swagger and force its will
> on not only its own people but the entire planet, but they are not alone.
> Australia, China, North Korea, Germany........  Etc............  All with
> their own agenda.  It would be great if there was ONE entity that controlled
> content and each country had to abide by their decisions in order to have
> access to the backbone but that's only just a dream at this point.  The flat
> earth that should be the flow of information needs to be demanded by
> everyone.
Not all states (or people for that matter) agree with Voltaire's view of free
speech. If our democratically accountable, and elected government wants to ban
hate speech/child porn/$OTHER_ILLEGAL_CONTENT, and puts in an accountable
method of dealing with it, I find it hard to see why the US view of free speech
should prevail over that choice.


> That's my 13 cents worth.
>
> (Inflation sucks)
>
> But who am I but just a thinking and caring animal of this planet?
>
> Bob-
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tarig Yassin [mailto:tariq198487 () hotmail com] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 1:24 PM
> To: nanog
> Subject: Who controlls the Internet?
>
>
> Deal all
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> I want to show you some obstacles that some countries face them every day.
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> For example when users from Sudan trying to access some web site they will
> get a *Forbidden Access Error* message.
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> And some messages say: you are forbidden to access this web site because
> your IP address appears form country black listed due to USA government
> policy.
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> I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet?
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> ThanksTarig                                     
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