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Story: US stands firm over Internet control

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Smithy, It's like saying:" Well, the Wright brothers flew for the first time (powered flight) so only the US may build aiplanes."
That makes no sense. All over the world inventions are made and, although the inventor should be getting paid for it, I think it would be hard to say to the others that they cannot use it or determine how to use it.

""Other nations won't be happy with that and come up with a newer, and likely better/faster/more secure internet. "

Yeah?
Why haven't they,then? "

Because they invested in the infrastructure of this internet and it will take a lot of money to change this infrastructure. One can already see where this could go, Europe is making its version of GPS called Galileo, and China has its own cheap road navigation system so there IS a shift going on. Countries like to be independent, that goes for the US as well as the rest of the world.

You wrote: "Most of the world's top internet portal, top internet businesses and sources of information are American, like Yahoo, Msn, Microsoft.com, Amazon, Ebay, Google, etc etc.."

Correct. But, there is another factor called export and China and Europe, for instance, are big markets. Information about products, shipment and even money transfers are sent across the Internet. If the US would not be able to track their orders or to promote their products to the rest of the world they would become isolated. That's what I tried to make clear.

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