Do you know Americans didnt acually invent the internet. Belive it or not it was invented by CERN the worlds biggest employer of phyisists, CERN is in Geneva, Switzerland. Now how many people acually knew CERN exicted?

Nothing is impossible. Just improbable.

@Realm: did you read Angels & Demons again?

You know, I could have sworn it was Al Gore who created the internet.

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Do you know Americans didnt acually invent the internet. Belive it or not it was invented by CERN the worlds biggest employer of phyisists, CERN is in Geneva, Switzerland. Now how many people acually knew CERN exicted?

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No. The WEB was created at CERN. The US military created the internet which was an expansion of a military network ARPANET.

We wouldn't have the web as it is today without one person, Tim Burners-Lee who yes, Worked at CERN. It's really what made the Internet take off the way it has. Without the web I reckon less than 10% of the current computers on the internet would be and as such, I do believe the EU does have a case for controlling half the internet.

I thought Al Gore created the internet.

I know why there's such a fuss over this. He who controls the internet controls the present, he who controls the present controls the past... yadda yadda.

In a previous comment I read on here, someone tried to drag in some of the laws contained in the Patriot Act, (and misrepresented them badly at that..lol) and put them side by side with the current organization. From what I have been able to read, the organization that is 'overseeing' everything has basically about zero control from the government. You bring up the laws on pornography etc and those are only laws put into place by the state and federal governments. And there is still a debate as to who should have those laws.

One one last note, someone mentioned turning this over to the UN. I have to disagree with that point massively. With the recent scandels that we have only scratched the surface with, not to include the ones we still have very little information on, do you honestly want to turn something such as this over to a huge body of International Politicians that are not looking out for the greater good but just for thier own interests.

btw I hate politicians on basically all levels...lol

Shoot first, shoot straight, win always.

Politicians are sh!t, plain and simple. They are not interested in the rights of people but for their own interests. Thus, if we turned control over to another control, i garentee we will enter a dark age with the internet, where piracy and pr0n run rampant, despite the enormous security measures that shut down huge amounts of perfectly good websites.

You cannot control the internet.

i don't see IPv6 used on our level anytime soon, the tech is just not readily available, as far as turning control over to the UN bad idea, half the time they can't agree on who's watch is right let alone control the net they'd mess everything up

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Who controls the internet?

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Umm... Someone who has a man holding a pair of scissors narrowly open over the main optical backbone link in every major country?

Now there's an idea....


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