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Steve Piranha

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I highly doubt any one entity can control the entire Internet. All the servers that host web sites are either privately or controlled by businesses. Unless someone could psychically touch these servers or hack every single one, then the Internet will remain free.

 

Then you throw in the Deep Web into the mix, then good luck controlling that...

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Doubtful. The internet was originally designed as a means of communication that could survive the destruction that warfare causes. If it can survive that, it can survive a countries efforts to control it. Just look at totalitarian states like North Korea. The only way the control the internet is by taking away computers. Even then, people still get news out of there. Remember the Arab Spring of 2011? Internet caused that, and it all went down in a totalitarian regime. Take into account that there will be plenty of hackers undermining efforts for one nation to rulers a global source of free information, and you pretty much have a done deal that no one country will rule the web. 

 

Unless there's a high atmospheric detonation of a nuclear warhead or a massive solar flair. Then the internet will be controlled by virtue of it being down. 

 

But then again, so will every single thing that uses electricity not protected by a Faraday cage. 


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Honestly, it's not that big of a deal. ICANN doesn't have as much power as you think; they are the root DNS server for the Internet as we know it and have a partnership with 13 other root servers to work with them to provide browsers with translations between URLs and IP addresses. So in essence, their purpose is acting as a glorified phone book. However, should ICANN go completely insane, there's nothing stopping other non-profit organizations from starting their own DNS root and in essence starting another "Internet" free of political control. But I highly doubt much will change and I think this guy is being really sensationalist for something which is more of a formality than anything else.

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Internet is being controlled by the aliens and will seem to stay that way for a long time:P

 

ALL HAIL OUR ALIEN INTERNET OVERLORDS!

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