Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax 791
Fredden wrote to mention a BBC piece discussing the U.S.'s poor image when it comes to Internet management. From the article: "It has even lost the support of the European Union. It stands alone as the divisive battle over who runs the internet heads for a showdown at a key UN summit in Tunisia next month. The stakes are high, with the European Commissioner responsible for the net, Viviane Reding, warning of a potential web meltdown. " We've previously covered this story.
Re:Go USA! (Score:5, Funny)
Yippi! (Score:5, Funny)
No, it would be the end of spam!
It's inevitable anyway... (Score:5, Funny)
If that's the case... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:let's discuss (Score:3, Funny)
Here it comes! (Score:3, Funny)
Wait? That's not the kind of climax you meant?
Sorry. My mistake.
Re:Go USA! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No new solutions, no problem anyway (Score:2, Funny)
Best description of the UN ever!
Goodbye everyone else (Score:5, Funny)
I mean hey, that would take care of all the issues with the chinese people seeing all those websites about freedom and democracy.
Me being a USian wouldn't really have a probelm with it. Yeah, there are some nice bbc.co.uk articles worth reading. New Zealand and Australia have some nice things every now and then, but other than that I won't notice. I'd go as far as saying that 90% of the americans on the internet wouldn't really notice if the rest of the world left us.
NO, WAIT I'M WRONG! We WOULD notice. Our levels of Spam would suddenly become a fraction of what it is now. No more spam from russia and china. Sounds GREAT TO ME!
And as a sysadmin, this would really take care of our ipv4 issues. Now we can get all those IP's back that we gave to the rest of the world. We won't have to move to IPv6 anytime soon.
Sure, some companies may do business overseas, so the big ISP's can build a 'gateway' product. Let them pay per meg to use it. All international traffic can go through there. Those can be run by EU/UN friendly companies.
So, bring it on world. Cut us off. See if we care! The South shall rise again!
(Yeah, I just wanted to say that last part)
You say we're hostile. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No new solutions, no problem anyway (Score:3, Funny)
DNS Dildo. (Score:1, Funny)
Oh geez. Why don't they both get a vibrator, and leave us alone?
Re:No new solutions, no problem anyway (Score:1, Funny)
Re:bassackwards. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No new solutions, no new news (Score:3, Funny)
Poor Denmark!
Our hero, Al Gore, addresses the rest of the world (Score:3, Funny)
Re:uk.co.ackwards.bass (Score:4, Funny)
I understand that may have been tried in Ireland. Only problem was, they were going to use a phased approach - on day 1 have all the cars switch sides, then the following week have the light trucks switch, followed finally by the 18-wheelers on the 3rd week.