> I'm not saying that's never been the case, but now we know the US can have more control on global internet infrastructure than we knew possible. About ten ye

> I'm not saying that's never been the case, but now we know the US can have more control on global internet infrastructure than we knew possible. About ten years ago we learned that a teacher at my faculty (maths and CS), a world class specialist in graphs theory and finding critical nodes at small world networks, was contacted by a US three letter agency. I've assumed since then that the US government could shut down the internet any time if they really, really wanted to do it. I didn't consider that they would shut down whole countries as a result of bricking routers from unintended hacking errors, though. Reality keeps outdoing the wildest figments of imagination.