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What are they really trying to achieve? The creation of a "Western Block Internet" by forcing all the others to create independent parallel structures? That's
by DominikR 12y ago
What are they really trying to achieve? The creation of a "Western Block Internet" by forcing all the others to create independent parallel structures?
That's what will happen, if they succeed in seizing these TLDs.
In effect, this would create a new Iron Curtain, but this time it'll be initiated by our governments.
- theandrewbailey 12y agoUnless I'm remembering history completely wrong, wasn't the other Iron Curtain also initiated by governments?
- DominikR 12y agoIt wasn't initiated by our western governments, but by the Soviets. This time it might be initiated by western governments, because the Chinese, Russians and others wont accept TLD seizures at will by the US.
- uiri 12y agoIt will be an iron curtain around a large subset of the Anglophone internet. I don't think that countries outside of Five Eyes are very appreciative of the spying that the NSA and the GCHQ have been carrying out. Not that it would necessarily be the only intranet at a (inter)national level; I'm sure that the Chinese government would love a political excuse to cut off their citizens' access to parts of the internet outside their borders.