World looks for online regime change

[lovuian]

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Asia Times Wednesday 12th October, 2005

A high-stakes battle is raging over who should control the Internet, the world's most powerful communication tool that has arguably become an important vehicle of globalization.

Not the Americans, is the message from the rest of the world. Last week, high-level talks in Geneva failed to resolve the dispute as the European Union broke ranks with the US government and joined Brazil, China and Iran in demanding an end to America's supervision of the Internet.

While many countries demand nothing less than "regime change", others say the United States should practice what it preaches and instill some democracy in the abstruse governance of the Internet.

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US domination is being challenged but what can the other countries do really???

[acmejack]

1. Make their own internet(s)

Just build it around their very own root servers.

[tocqueville]

2. they can do what they want, if they want to

the technology is known, so anyone can create its own Internet. Dictatory regimes can then forbid access to the current Internet.

Of course if the US have a multi-lateral approach the current issues could be solved. But it's maybe too much to ask... with the present administration

[peacetalksforall]

3. I feel assured that the regime needs the internet to catch their

enemies and their spies just as much as they need to contain freedom of our speech. If that is a correct assumption, they must be very conflicted.

By regime - I believe everyone is talking about the Echelon countries - U.S., Britain, Canada, and Australia? Plus Israel?

Or is it just the U.S?

[Oggy]

4. Even we ( Brits )

Have offered up an alternative solution, so it is just the U.S.