[governance] Could the U.S. shut down the internet?

[Karl Auerbach]

On 02/04/2011 01:13 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:

> The text you provide is true. My question remains, within the current
> state of affairs and what has happened to the Wikileaks website and
> the numerous other being taken down under ACTA...

The discussion requires greater precision.

The machinery and web server still runs, packets still can flow to/from 
the web server(s).

The thing that was "taken down" was DNS resource record for which the 
master source exists in a database run by a US company.  (I don't know 
whether the database is on a machine in the US, but the authority to 
control that database definitely is vested in a company subject to US 
jurisdiction.)

	--karl--
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