An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands 607
An anonymous reader writes "Ariel Rabkin has a piece over at News Corp.'s Weekly Standard arguing that the US should maintain its control over the Internet. After reading his piece, I have a hard time arguing that it should be handed over to some international body."
Re:Real summary: (Score:5, Funny)
Whoa. Godwinned in only three posts.
Re:Real summary: (Score:5, Funny)
Give control to Canada (Score:5, Funny)
We're generally impartial and if we ever make a mistake we'll apologize for it.
Actually, even if the mistake isn't our fault, we'll apologize anyway. That's the Canadian way.
Who will police the police? (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno... Coast Guard?
The Internet belongs to those who use it. (Score:3, Funny)
The Internet should be administered by an international body.
I understand that many Americans want to keep their hands on the project their country invented and advanced, for security or productivity reasons, but the Internet has been so successful because of the international networking it helped achieve.
Otherwise here in the EU we would have used the French standard and I would have posted a similar silly post to the "La BarreObliqueDot"...
Re:Real summary: (Score:4, Funny)
Wow, a Godwin-First-Post hybrid. The force is strong in this one.
No. That's not the force. That's just a greased up Yoda doll pressing on his brain.
Re:Real summary: (Score:4, Funny)
Wow a comparison to Hitler, I don't really think you know your history.
Well, say what you will about Hilter but I don't think you can make the claim that he was in bed with RIAA ;)
Re:The information utopia that never came (Score:3, Funny)
You probably didn't get the memo, but it's not a series of cables but a series of tubes. It's a slight difference, but a critical one too.
Re:Why mess with it (Score:5, Funny)
Remember when DNS registr* wasn't an extortion racket?
No. When did this magic day exist?
Re:Real summary: (Score:2, Funny)
You obviously dont know about "Hitler Yodels the Classics" from EMI. Theres a number of Top 20 hits on there including "Blitzkrieg for you my love" and the ever popular "Gassing Jews in the rain". Available from all good retailers.
Re:Give control to Canada (Score:2, Funny)
Seems easy enough (Score:5, Funny)
Nope, I can't see anything wrong here. Everything is as it should be. Move along, citizens.
Re:Seriously? (Score:4, Funny)
When we _all_ know that it was an American who did that.
Al Gore.
Re:Seriously? (Score:5, Funny)
> The US keeping control however will simply bread more resentment toward the US.
It's part of a plan to collect a huge amount of resentment bread, then use that bread to feed the poor and bring about world peace. How can you be against that?
Give control to France. (Score:3, Funny)
Give control to France.
They'll surrender control to the first party who asks nicely.
(Sorry. Just kidding. I have seen the crosses. Sadly, I can't remember all the names on them.)
Re:Real summary: (Score:4, Funny)
How the hell did it get all the way up there?
Re:Seriously? (Score:4, Funny)
December 7, 1942 justified war with Japan..
It took a whole year after the US was attacked to justify declaring war against Japan? Is this some kind of mandatory waiting period like when we buy guns?
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Re:Give control to Canada (Score:1, Funny)
I suspect that this perception may be the result of a meme (a real one) where Canadians travelling to Europe got the idea that "sorry" is used in place of "excuse me" in Europe.
Polite? Yes. Overly apologetic? No way. Our Governor General (official representative of the Queen) recently ate raw seal heart publicly. Take that, you spoiled, bleeding-heart (pun intended), old-world EU pansies! Who was it who wanted all those beaver felt hats? Ohhh rigghttt... It is one thing to criticise the means of survival in Northern Canada, it is another thing entirely to experience it.
Re:Legal Eagles (Score:4, Funny)
That sounds good, but the problem is that it's quite easy to go from this to a state where the queen is briefly the most trusted person whilst others are untrusted. She is "persuaded" that she must use her powers for good and you slide into dictatorship. This might happen if a bunch of bastard MPs suddenly started abusing their expenses process, allowing claims for all sorts of things which they would never allow normal working people. You migh even find that this almost completely discredited parliament and caused all sorts of problems. Of course such a thing would never actually happen in the UK because British MPs are paragons of virtue.
Re:Who used to run it. (Score:3, Funny)
Ask any politician - a hundred million for a TLD is a bargain. Stop whimpering, will ya? You should realize by now that your purpose in life is to supply money for politicians to waste. Just stop whimpering, get with the program, and PRODUCE MORE MONEY!!