I think Chimpy knew what he was saying when he said " Internets"

[bahrbearian]

U.S. Insists on Keeping Control of Web
GENEVA - A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating U.S. intentions to keep its historical role as the medium's principal overseer.

"We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet," said Ambassador David Gross, the U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy at the State Department. "Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable."

Many countries, particularly developing ones, have become increasingly concerned about the U.S. control, which stems from the country's role in creating the Internet as a Pentagon project and funding much of its early development.
(snip)
One proposal that countries have been discussing would wrest control of domain names from the U.S.-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, and place it with an intergovernmental group, possibly under the United Nations.

Gross dismissed it as unacceptable"


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050929/ap_on_hi_te/internet_control;_ylt=AiRAoSjlK2agG6.ewQYxI0ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ

I think he knew all along that we would be going our own way with the "net". "Your with us or against us"

[RoyGBiv]

1. Ayup ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=242&topic_id=5293&mesg_id=5296

[bahrbearian]

2. Thanks, I missed that one.

[RoyGBiv]

3. No problem ...

I'm just glad someone else sees the same thing.

I am not liking the way this seems to be headed.

[bahrbearian]

4. I would love to have government control of the net.

We could filter anything we needed to keep masses in... oops thats my Rove talking.

[DS1]

5. While Chimpy has no idea what he's talking about, and thinks

each site is an internet, there is an Internet2 out there. It's got a huge new IP system that can handle a few magnitude more sites and traffic than the current one which hasn't been updated since the 60s.

Still, while there really are two full, but seperate (and who knows if the NSA doesn't have its own riding on top of both) Internets, Bush is still a clueless asshole and he should just shut the fuck up forever.