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To: GOPJ

Speaking of communists, there’s an international aspect to this that isn’t being talked about much. Namely that reclassifying the internet as a utility makes certain parts of international law incoherent where it applies to the internet. The effect is that it’s going to be easier for countries to take control of certain parts of the infrastructure that are currently controlled by the U.S. — China and Russia being the first that come to mind. I can’t remember the technicalities offhand but somehow we currently control the establishment of domain names and somehow we could lose that, which would make it easier for bad governments to wall off parts of the internet from their people. Essentially we are ceding some of our control to other international “stakeholders”.


52 posted on 02/28/2015 8:57:35 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
You could be right.

I wish I had asked a few questions rather than dismissing him and what he had to say as Marxist claptrap... I got the feeling ‘net neutrality’ would help Communists. Not much more than that...

54 posted on 03/01/2015 3:03:58 AM PST by GOPJ (Comrade Thug - pleae don't hurt me for disagreeing... I lived in a free country once..)
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To: Yardstick
The effect is that it’s going to be easier for countries to take control of certain parts of the infrastructure that are currently controlled by the U.S. — China and Russia being the first that come to mind.

Could that control make it easier for them to undermine the internet within the United States?

55 posted on 03/01/2015 7:29:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Comrade Thug - pleae don't hurt me for disagreeing... I lived in a free country once..)
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