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Originally posted by deadbang
reply to post by quackers
I disagree, having control over a networks such as AT&T & Verizon (both US based), which not only span the U.S. but just about every country of consequence would seriously change the landscape of what is generally termed the "internet".
Would it kill it?..as discussed with Stu...NO, but it would change it at a fundamental level. With the gang of 13 (DNS root servers) and most major routing tables based in the US...alot would go away, and what was left would be klugy.
[edit on 28-8-2009 by deadbang]
Originally posted by Muundoggie
We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism
to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders
in giving Americans small doses of socialism
until they suddenly awake to find they have communism.
Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev, 1959
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism.
But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every
fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America
will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
Socialist Norman Thomas
Originally posted by deadbang
reply to post by quackers
With AT&T being the largest physical network in the world, I would say it fits the definition of critical. Most ISPs are just bandwidth brokers, they ride some telecommunications giants backbone.
And while you are correct that not ALL of the internet stems from the U.S., enough of it ie...DNS, routing, etc...originates or passes through that without the U.S. infrastructure the internet would not be the same.
Could a workaround be implemented to bubblegum and bailing wire it back together?..sure, but like I said before, it would be kludgey.
[edit on 28-8-2009 by deadbang]