Analysis of WSIS Outcomes for Internet Governance

Thanks for showing us all very clearly how thoughtful, well-informed and considerate of other people are the defenders of U.S. unilateral control.

Here's a few facts for your edification:

1. All of those countries you hate are already inside ICANN as part of GAC. Chew on that for a while

2. No one is talking about turning over "the Internet" to the UN, and indeed, if you think the US "runs the Internet" and that it shouldn't "give it up" then you don't understand a thing about how the Internet works.

3. The Internet was never a "weapon." It was conceived as a protocol for tying together different physical networks.

4. The Internet gets its value by means of network externalities, so regardless of who invented the protocol (and it wasn't you, was it?) the importance and value of the internet comes from people joining that network globally. Networks in Europe, Asia, etc. have made investments in infrastructure and add as much value to the internet as U.S. companies and organizations.

5. I don't see how it helps the Internet or me as a U.S. citizens for a bureacrat in the Dept. of Commerce to have some unaccountable and arbitrary power over changes in the root zone file. Perhaps you can explain that, assuming that you know what the root zone file is.

6. The U.S. government, when it comes down to it, has more in common with other governments than it does with ordinary citizens and internet users.

7. The WWW protocol, which is what made the Internet easy enough for simpletons like you to use, was not invented here but by a Swiss institute.

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