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Authored by: Wol on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 05:14 PM EST |
Why are you (a non-American) supporting their continued right to run it?
That's not to say the ITU would make a better job of it, but I don't have a
knee-jerk pro-American stance. Oh, and how much of the Internet was actually
invented in America? The WWW was invented in Switzerland by a Brit. One of the
first non-American networks was JANET, which probably pre-dates the Internet
(and a lot of computing was invented here - the historians like arguing over
whether it was the Americans or Brits). A lot of BSD Unix was actually written
in London or Australia ...
I'm afraid a lot of this just strikes me as American nationalism (which is only
to be expected on an American site like Groklaw), but don't expect me to join in
...
Cheers,
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- Yes/No answer - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 17 2013 @ 08:48 PM EST
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Authored by: hairbear on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 08:23 AM EST |
The way I look at it is ... if the US (or any other country) disagrees with the
ITU, then they need to argue their point to the best of their ability.
De-funding is just throwing toys out of the pram and just makes the people
involved look childish.
hairbear
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