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    In 6 Days the US Will Release Control of Internet Regulation

    Some basic elements of the Internet, which the US government has regulated since their creation, will be turned loose for an international non-profit organization to regulate.


    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG1bVaulfJU



    What this will mean going forward for the Internet is difficult to say and depends on the mood of international politics I suppose.

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    Is usually a plan a b c d etc in place by tptW beforehand and as the internet has been a massive thorn in their ways and allowed past shadows to be known plus awaken many, especially the young, prepare popcorn and proactive mind.

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    Quote Originally posted by Aianawa View Post
    Is usually a plan a b c d etc in place by tptW beforehand and as the internet has been a massive thorn in their ways and allowed past shadows to be known plus awaken many, especially the young, prepare popcorn and proactive mind.
    I'm afraid that the internet isn't all rainbows and unicorns, Aianawa. Don't forget that it started out as a US military computer network (called DARPAnet). It was Al Gore who opened up the internet to the whole world, but...

    • Al Gore is a member of the Rockefeller/Bush/Clinton clan, so he knew exactly what he was doing when he opened up the internet to the civilian world.

    • Up until now, the DNS ("domain name system") root servers had remained under US control.

    • Within a year after the internet had been opened up, it went from being a gigantic library and communications medium to a gigantic marketplace — in other words, it serves the corporations — and surveillance platform.

    • The internet has greatly facilitated the dissemination of mis- and disinformation. With all of the ludicrous theories and claims floating around out there, it has become extremely hard for most people to still see the forest for the trees anymore. The phrase "Don't believe everything you see on TV" has morphed into "Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

    • Considering that Al Gore is also very good friends with Bill Gates and Microsoft, and that Microsoft Windows is the world's worst possible computer operating system in terms of security, the opening up of the internet was also a Trojan horse. Every Microsoft Windows machine connected to the internet is a potential attack vector. About 85% of all computers with Microsoft Windows installed are slave drones in at least one botnet without that their owners know about it, and the antivirus industry is always lagging several weeks behind on the development of malware. And then I'm not even getting into the fact that both Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS (formerly known as OS X) ship from their developers with deliberate backdoors already built in.

      And now, with the so-called "Internet of Things", even mobile devices are also becoming infected and are equally being weaponized for conducting DDoS ("distributed denial of service") attacks, as was the case still only a few days ago against the security news site KrebsOnSecurity. Even KrebsOnSecurity's hosting company Akamai, which had excellent DDoS protection, couldn't deal with the attack, which bombarded the KrebsOnSecurity website with approximately 77.5 GiB of junk data per second.


    So, as cool as you think the internet is, it wasn't exactly an honest and innocent gift to the people. It's a blessing and a curse at the same time.

    Just putting a few things in perspective here...
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    Am not sorry for looking at the positive side of the internet, well aware of the dark side of it, also well aware nasty doings have had xlent outcomes against the run of play, especially since 1987 and of late 2012 and ATM.

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    Quote Originally posted by Aragorn View Post
    Al Gore is a member of the Rockefeller/Bush/Clinton clan, so he knew exactly what he was doing when he opened up the internet to the civilian world.
    I actually don't think the military had fully explored all possible "side effects" of the creation of the Internet, and I really don't know if it would even be possible. Chaos theory comes to mind here, and this would be an incredibly complex problem for anyone trying to simulate and predict public behavior. If you think back to the 1990's, and what life was like in the early 1990's, cell phones for all practical purposes still did not exist, let alone smart phones, and the Internet wasn't considered a basic utility like it is now in some countries. When Al Gore had Congress pass a bill to subsidize the commercialization of the Internet in 1991 most people were still using Microsoft DOS. I don't even think Windows 3.1 had been developed. It was more like something engineers and nerds got excited but just a curiosity or annoyance to everyone else, depending on the point of view. In a lot of ways it was a completely different society than today.

    I'm sure some people had grandiose ideas of all kinds of dastardly things they could abuse the Internet with, but as far as how much it has contributed to exposing corruption and bypassing the MSM, I don't think they were expecting so much of a problem there as they have had. The present situation, in regards to how much the American public respects their leaders today, is probably more or less comparable to how the French looked at King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on the eve of the French Revolution. They are not in a secure position, no matter how confident they act.

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    Quote Originally posted by bsbray View Post
    I actually don't think the military had fully explored all possible "side effects" of the creation of the Internet, and I really don't know if it would even be possible. Chaos theory comes to mind here, and this would be an incredibly complex problem for anyone trying to simulate and predict public behavior.
    Most definitely not all possibilities, no. But some of them — such as the interception and analysis of network traffic — would certainly have been on the agenda.

    But for that matter, I wasn't actually claiming that all of the downsides of the internet were the result of it having its origins in a military application. It just so happens to be that when the internet was opened up to the public, it has turned out to be Pandora's box, and there most definitely is a lot to the internet which isn't so innocent or innocuous — the rapid spreading of mis- and disinformation, the surveillance culture and "The Dark Web", to name but a few.

    It may not have been planned this way from the start, but that's what the internet is today, and so it isn't all unicorns and rainbows. That was my point.
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    I actually think more people are more aware of issues today than they have been in the recent past, and that the Internet is pretty much single-handedly responsible for that. For all the disinformation out there at least there is still freedom of discussion. In the 1990's what we heard, read or talked about was all pretty much monopolized by a small handful of companies.

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    Quote Originally posted by bsbray View Post
    I actually think more people are more aware of issues today than they have been in the recent past, and that the Internet is pretty much single-handedly responsible for that. For all the disinformation out there at least there is still freedom of discussion. In the 1990's what we heard, read or talked about was all pretty much monopolized by a small handful of companies.
    That's the thing. And the ability to research things to a much greater extent than before. It's a lot easier to call people out on their BS and find info that can't be called back to mind. My steel trap's a bit more like a sieve...

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