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U.S. to relinquish key oversight role for Internet

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Never mind.

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The decision comes with Washington under pressure following revelations about vast surveillance programs operated by the secretive National Security Agency to collect intelligence and other data through a variety of methods.

Errr...yeah...right!! the CIA and NSA will be doing their spying business, but god/s BLESS their anti AL Qaeda and now something Islamiya that seemed to have hijacked that pretty Malaysian Airlines plane to some funny part of the world to piss of Bejing for messing around too much with the minority Muslim Uighurs!

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Big mistake. I'm sure they'll keep some secret back door or something but I have never understood the logic behind this. The US basically invented and created the internet. Why give up the last bastion of control over something that is basically yours?

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there has been a lot of pressure regarding icaan for the past 8 -10 years very much predating snowden. however the big issue is the ability to control the addresses and the root hubs.

now countries of interest (russia, china etc) will be able to view the master phone book of the internet, and then control or eliminate anything that is not - as your say- appropriate.

the interesting thing is that the internet would not have existed if not for arpanet and the usa....... but oh well that' s the usa complaining again about setting something up , supplying most of the money and then being told to give it away (and continue supplying most of the money)...

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Elbuda Mexicano

What's your point?

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sourpussMar. 16, 2014 - 11:41AM JST Big mistake. I'm sure they'll keep some secret back door or something but I have never understood the logic behind this. The US basically invented and created the internet. Why give up the last bastion of control over something that is basically yours?

Wow, buy into your own propaganda much? Bletchley Park in 1938 was the real source of the internet. The internet, and all of modern computing,is the brain child of Alan Turing, a British scientist. The role of ARPANET in the U.S. is also hugely overstated as similar systems were developed before that in Great Britain and France, but they are almost never mentioned.

I'm not denying that the U.S. made a great contribution to the development of the internet, and deserves a great deal of the credit. What I am fiercely opposed to is this nonsense idea that the U.S. developed the internet in isolation and without any meaningful contribution from scientists in other countries, which is the current U.S. propaganda. The U.S. no more "owns" the internet than Great Britain "owns" all computers everywhere because Alan Turing came up with the underlying logic, technology and cryptology that runs every computer today.

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Why give up the last bastion of control over something that is basically yours?

It's not even remotely the US's, let alone "basically" the US's. Maybe 15 years ago, but not at all now.

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@frungy

Ouch my head hurts! Thats a great thought Watson!

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ah yes, the lobbyists in Washington have finally won, and a new dark age will begin. The last public accountable system is gone. The muiltinationals and security agencies will now take over the rest of the Internet. Goodbye Wikipedia and all free services

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sf2kMar. 17, 2014 - 12:39AM JST ah yes, the lobbyists in Washington have finally won, and a new dark age will begin. The last public accountable system is gone. The muiltinationals and security agencies will now take over the rest of the Internet. Goodbye Wikipedia and all free services

Ever heard of "undernet"? Yes, it is possible that the current addressing system might be hijacked by corporate concerns, but the internet has a long history of laughing at that sort of thing and just developing a new addressing system. You can no more police the internet than you can subvert it, it is purest anarchy.

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The spying on US citizens have been going on for decades long before Al Qaeda and Asama Bin Laden, although we worked with these same "Freedom Fighters" against the evil Soviet Empire. When the dogs of war ran unleashed they kept dossier files on people in this country during the Eisenhower Administration. In their pursuit of destroying the Soviet Union they aided in the development of the extreme Islamic Right; remember, we called them Freedom Fighters and now we call them terrorists. With all of this the CIA has time to keep files on all of us.

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The US basically invented and created the internet. Why give up the last bastion of control over something that is basically yours?

By that rationale, will you be wanting your aerosol cheese back, too?

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as similar systems were developed before that in Great Britain and France, but they are almost never mentioned.

Really? Similar? Then how did Arpanet do so much better then those failures? Better PR?

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