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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
What makes you think the Internet can't be regulated? There is absolutely nothing to prevent the Internet ending up like that, if governments decide it needs to be done. And you might even learn to like it, when you don't have to sweat viruses, hackers, spam, DDOS attacks, and botnets anymore.
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I didn't say it
can't be. Only that it would be very difficult.
Sure,
a government can impose regulations in what it believes to be in the public interest of its people. Things are more complex when the issues extend across national boundaries.
Consider the countries I pointed at in an earlier post as being the homes of most of the servers used in phishing scams.
Get anyone on Korea in a position to act to care about the volume of spam sent from Korean servers.
Get anyone in Russia to take action on the amount of phishes coming from there.
Get anyone in Nigeria to act against the 419 scammers. That is, if you can find someone in a position to act who isn't getting a cut of the take from the scams.
What do you do? Ban
all traffic to and from them? Good luck doing so, even if you try.
For a less extreme action, follow the merry path of the EU as it attempts to forge agreements among member states about things like currency and laws, and the furor over the recent Irish "no" vote.
Effective action requires a lot of governments to agree to take it, after first agreeing on what effective action
is. We should live so long.
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And yes, for the record, I'm saying that I believe that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. Though obviously, idealism can greatly suffer upon execution, the potential to solve most of the web's most nagging problems is worth at least the consideration of the idea.
Because, frankly, the whole Anarchy thing we have now isn't solving any of those problems.
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What would you propose?
Anarchy is not a stable system. Order arises sooner of later, in one manner or another. The question is the best source for it to come from. I'm not convinced that source is government. Given some of the measures that might be involved, I'm not sure I trust
any government with those powers.
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Dennis