[governance] [liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a "Autonomous Internet" ?

[Kivuva]

Can we allude that it is  infinitesimally unlikely that the US government
to engage in nuclear war but its the only country to have every dropped an
atomic bomb to large masses of innocent civilians ...

On 19 June 2012 17:09, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:

> On Jun 19, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > The physical control of the machine is not important (unless its
> > operator decides to break free; unlike David Conrad, I regard this as
> > highly unlikely
> > <http://masonlee.org/2009/12/18/dns-takeover-1998/>).
>
> Sorry if I gave the wrong impression here. I consider the chances the root
> server operators would decide to refuse to serve the root zone as
> infinitesimally unlikely, similar in probability to the US government
> "going rogue" in a way that would impact the root zone.  I am merely
> pointing out that _if_ the US government were to decide to do something
> insanely stupid, there would be mechanisms by which those actions could be
> addressed (in a stunningly destructive way).  This is why I've made analogy
> to Mutual Assured Destruction nuclear doctrine.
>
> Regards,
> -drc
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