[governance] People's Daily of China: US must hand over Internet control to the world

[Daniel Kalchev]

When one considers these government controlled press "opinions", two 
things must be kept in mind:

1. China already has it's own Internet. You see "Internet" in China in 
the form of what the Great Firewall of China is designed to present to 
you. So this is an thief crying "catch the thieves" story. It's possible 
China already has their very own ICANN/IANA structure and root-server 
constellation.

2. Internet is an open network of private networks. Each private network 
operator can do and actually does what their own agenda suggests (such 
as, in China's case -- implement the Great Firewall). There is nothing 
in the design of "Internet" that has any provision for "countries" and 
therefore "countries" are not an defined party in the Internet. This 
includes the USA.
(I know, this sounds harsh, but truth is always this way)

Anyway, articles like this always leave me wondering, whether it is 
because of utter ignorance, or some political agenda (*).

Daniel

(*) It is always about power grab. Some think it is about money, but 
money is just a way to grab more power, as humans are greedy. Some yet 
think it is about politics, but politics are ultimately about money and 
power grab. Yet, some believe it is all for the imaginary "public good" 
or "so God said", but it is simply about grabbing more power. It is 
pointless to argue with religion (as opposed to faith). Same with 
patriotism. Luckily, Internet is designed to deal with this.

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