US relinquishes control of the internet

[MisterJackson]

All of this got me to thinking about this piece I heard the other day on NPR. Interesting stuff. The very first website could be sitting on a hard drive, which is lost, and possibly sitting on someones bookshelf somewhere.

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/22/185788651/the-first-web-page-amazingly-is-lost

 

[ThinClient]

I guess I'm dumb, but I don't see why this change is either a good thing or a bad thing, just a thing of change.

Why is this bad?

 

[Rakehellion]

The worst thing to happen to the internet was the .us and other one-off TLDs. Does anyone use those except spammers?

 

[Murloc]

The worst thing to happen to the internet was the .us and other one-off TLDs. Does anyone use those except spammers?

huh no? Stupid names like de.li.cio.us etc., country-specific businesses or parts thereof, country specific websites.
I guess .us is not much used by american websites but here everybody uses the country-specific TLD.
E.g. here the newspaper use .ch

 

[Oldgamer]

Ahhhh....looks like I was right on my last post. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/12/us-internet-control

Quote: "All of the major internet organisations have pledged, at a summit in Uruguay, to free themselves of the influence of the US government.

The directors of ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society and all five of the regional Internet address registries have vowed to break their associations with the US government.

In a statement, the group called for "accelerating the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing".

That's a distinct change from the current situation, where the US department of commerce has oversight of ICANN."

In another part of the statement, the group "expressed strong concern over the undermining of the trust and confidence of Internet users globally due to recent revelations of pervasive monitoring and surveillance".

Meanwhile, it was announced that the next Internet Governance Summit would be held in Brazil, whose president has been extremely critical of the US over web surveillance.

 

[sdifox]

Hopefully this stops the Trans Pacific Partnership from dicking with DNS through sensorship.


https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

 

[5150Joker]

US should tell other nations to get bent and build their own fragmented internet.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

In another part of the statement, the group "expressed strong concern over the undermining of the trust and confidence of Internet users globally due to recent revelations of pervasive monitoring and surveillance".

Show me a single government who claims they don't monitor and surveille the internet and I'll show you a motherfucking blatant liar of a country.

Don't delude yourself. None of this has anything to do with fairness or sharing equally. It's about power and control. Where the internet is concerned the US has that control and power, and rightly so because the US was the prime driver of the development of the internet, and other countries want a piece of that.

 

[AViking]

Isn't this bad? Aren't those who were complaining those nations who wanted to censure and have more control over the internet?

 

[WelshBloke]

Isn't this bad? Aren't those who were complaining those nations who wanted to censure and have more control over the internet?

All countries want censure and control.

Russia and China are big on political censoring.
Europe is more about violence and "OMG think of the children" stuff.
America is more about censoring to protect corporate interests.

/simplisticviewpoint

 

[AViking]

I was in China and really felt like the only thing I could access on the internet was my Email.

Gotta give them mad props though for their very creative ways to block content. They actually selectively block content on foreign news sites. Of course they might bring the whole site down for a day first.