{"id":8565,"date":"2005-10-10T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T00:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/10\/10\/net-control.html"},"modified":"2005-10-10T17:43:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T00:43:48","slug":"net_control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/10\/net_control.html","title":{"rendered":"Net Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can understand why a lot of folks aren’t happy with the US government and the folks it contracts out to being in charge of the “root” of the Internet. Issues of who put it all together in the first place aside, I can see the objections and worries that would stem from that.<\/p>\n

And that, said, is anyone better served by, say, China and Tunisia being added to the mix of controllers?<\/a><\/p>\n

Strangely, I am unimpressed with assertions that governments have no interest in screwing around with technical standards or civil liberties (Hello, China here? The folks who twist the arms of every search provider to limit what sites its citizens can see?<\/em>), or hearing from EU representatives that, by adding more governments overseeing things, we won’t make things any more bureaucratic …<\/p>\n

I’m pretty certain I’d rather not have China — or France, or Russia, or any more folks than absolutely necessary — involved in the “place” where I host my <\/em>blog. Or do my book and movie shopping, for that matter. The US government is bad enough, and, hell, I get to vote<\/em> for them.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can understand why a lot of folks aren’t happy with the US government and the folks it contracts out to being in charge of the “root” of the Internet….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42423,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/hey-look-another-reason-not-to-be-on-linkedin.html","url_meta":{"origin":8565,"position":0},"title":"Hey, look, another reason not to be on LinkedIn","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Jun-14 10:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a LinkedIn profile, which basically means I get each week a couple dozen people pinging me to get me to admit that I know them, and a half-dozen people ranking me as Really Spiffy in something that they've never known me to do.I get onto LinkedIn probably once\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1075,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/19\/strange_bedfell.html","url_meta":{"origin":8565,"position":1},"title":"Strange bedfellows","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Oct-01 6:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bush Says Side by Side with China Against Terrorism Of course China stands against terrorism. 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