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Drewbert
21st August 2012, 06:53 AM
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7915248.html

Rubber Duck
21st August 2012, 08:44 AM
To be honest, if the UN or indeed a block of countries wished to free itself of the US, then it more than possible to do this. The World Wide Web is just one Internet Channel. Other channels could easily be set up in parallel with duplicated web addresses. Instead of www.porno.com, you could have itu.porno.com. Of course the itu could be hidden just as the www is hidden, so internet users would be oblivious to the change. Owners of the www addresses could be grandfathered across, and the US could be left to stew in its own juices. But if there is intelligent life left in Washington, they must surely understand this.

blackpower
21st August 2012, 04:37 PM
This would be reasonable in a perfect world but US must control internet in present circumstances;

mulligan
21st August 2012, 04:43 PM
This would be reasonable in a perfect world but US must control internet in present circumstances;

Explain please?

blackpower
21st August 2012, 06:14 PM
Explain please?

What is wrong with US control?
Who else will you trust?

Rubber Duck
21st August 2012, 07:32 PM
What is wrong with US control?
Who else will you trust?

You missed my point.

The Rest of the World can tell the US to get fucked anytime it wants.

Sure it going to cause a whole load of disruption, but it would be like not screeming when you are being raped because you don't want to cause a fuss. Of course the biggest disruption would be to the US, because they would end up in their own gold fish bowl.

blackpower
22nd August 2012, 09:36 AM
You missed my point.

The Rest of the World can tell the US to get fucked anytime it wants.

Sure it going to cause a whole load of disruption, but it would be like not screeming when you are being raped because you don't want to cause a fuss. Of course the biggest disruption would be to the US, because they would end up in their own gold fish bowl.

The "World" could but surely you'd agree that it will not because "the world" is nothing but a complex mix of private interests and US can control them by manipulating their greed and fear. Surely you don't hold a naive and idealistic view of the world as something that cares for universal good, when in fact it does not care for anything but power?
I prefer one Power that maintains order to a bunch of smaller powers fighting for food all against all

Rubber Duck
22nd August 2012, 10:33 AM
The "World" could but surely you'd agree that it will not because "the world" is nothing but a complex mix of private interests and US can control them by manipulating their greed and fear. Surely you don't hold a naive and idealistic view of the world as something that cares for universal good, when in fact it does not care for anything but power?
I prefer one Power that maintains order to a bunch of smaller powers fighting for food all against all

The US is fiscal black hole, and therefore inherently unstable. If you are going to have a Global Policeman then you need one that doesn't need to steal for food.

sbe18
22nd August 2012, 07:56 PM
When Gibraltar returns to Spain possibly ??