United Nations too dumb to run the Internet
Found on The Inquirer on Tuesday, 02 August 2005
A republican senator says that the UN is too incompetent to run the Interweb and he wants the US to remain in control.
"My probe revealed management that was at best, incompetent, and at worst corrupt," said Coleman.
"Putting the UN in charge of one of the world's most important technological wonders and economic engines is out of the question. This proposal would leave the United States with no more say over the future of the Internet than Cuba or China—countries that have little or no commitment to the free flow of information," he said.
Obviously, this guy failed miserable in diplomacy. Now, theoretically, the rest of the world could seperate from the "US" Internet. That way, the US could have it's own flourishing network. That's the whole point: you cannot control the net, even if you run the root server. It just takes some changes in the configuration.