Question by bead_flea: What Cons would the U.S. government controlling the Internet be?
The Bush administration announced in 2005 that the U.S. government will not hand over control of the Internet to any other organization, a surprise move that could presage an international flap.
At the moment, the U.S. government maintains control of the Internet’s “root”–the master file that lists what top-level domains are authorized–but has indicated in the past that it would transfer that responsibility to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.
The new principles, outlined by Assistant Commerce Secretary Michael Gallagher, say the U.S. government will “maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file.” In addition, the principles say, the U.S. government will continue to maintain “oversight” of ICANN and prevent its “focus” from straying from technical coordination.
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Answer by mamasquirrel
Cons? You saw the debacle that was Katrina, right?
I wouldn’t trust the government to clean up the Presidential Pooche’s pooey. The more they try to run for us, the worse they get.
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Censorship. If the government says you can’t talk about cats, then it’s illegal. If a company says you can’t talk about something…then it does not matter what a company says(they don’t come and arrest you).
None I guess
And….you have a question in here somewhere I think
they could fixx what the internet says
ie. they could only share the good about the war or gov. and so everyone thinks that all is good when it isnt
that’s interesting because the neo-cons want to privatize everything from military duty to prisons, but when it comes to the information highway they want control like China. Problem is the Demis won’t save us either because behind the scenes they are both on the same team.