The internet and who owns it...?

Question

The world wide web was invented by a British man who finished its development in Switzerland. So why is it that America thinks it should be the one who can govern the internet? I'm aware that American's contribute a lot to the internet in many shapes and forms but do you think any one country should be in control of it, if yes why, and if no then how would you inforce laws related to the internet?

Answer 1

First of all you can never own, censor, or even try to control the Internet.
You see the problem is that anybody can contribute to the Internet with a certain amount of anonymity, thus making it impossble to own, its open-source.

No need to worry because, no matter what, the Internet will never be owned by the United States' Government or Any Government OR even Bill Gates, can never own the Internet.

Answer 2

Actually no.

The backbone of the internet (date pipelines) is owned by private companies. The primary layer protocol of the internet, TCP/IP, was invented by a number of people, mainly US citizens who were working on the old ARPAnet and UUnet networks (See RFC 1065).

You are correct about who first proposed the concept of the uniform resource locators that formed the primary data protocol for the web (See RFC 1630, link below). However, HTML as a document markup was based on SGML which was invented by several US companies.

The current domain registration system and name-servers were also invented primarily by US citizens, as an alternative routing scheme to what the older separate networks used. It was first managed by a private company called Network Solutions, but later decentralized through international agreement.

America (as a government) thinks it can control the internet because that's the general American government's attitude about most things. It has nothing to do with the reality of the situation, or who first developed the underlying technologies.

Answer 3

no one ones any significant part of the Internet.

Al Gore misspoke and has since been misquoted by the Fox News ash-holes. Al Gore was head of the senate subcommittee who recommending making the ARPANET into a commercial viable network of computers - the Internet.

The British guy invented TCP/IP protocols and not the Internet itself - and I am not sure he as actually a Brit

Answer 4

Well....I think nobody has the right to control the internet...it's a communication method just like the phone, and if nobody has the right to control that, the same should be for the internet. The USA call it democracy...sorry, but for me it's just bull shet what they say!!! all lies!!

Answer 5

No, it should be an international body that regulates it. However, the body should actually be an effective one unlike the UN or other such regulatory commissions.

Answer 6

Come on... everyone knows it was invented by Al Gore!

Answer 7

America controls the internet like we control the world... if you don't like it then do something about it. other than that, suck a c0ck and be quiet