The Register recently published the letter Condi Rice sent to the EU right before the 11th hour decision to pull out of their hardline stance about ICANN control in the run up to the WSIS conference a few weeks back.
The Internet will reach its full potential as a medium and facilitator for global economic expansion and development in an environment free from burdensome intergovernmental oversight and control. The success of the Internet lies in its inherently decentralized nature, with the most significant growth taking place at the outer edges of the network through innovative new applications and services. Burdensome, bureaucratic oversight is out of place in an Internet structure that has worked so well for many around the globe.
The letter is strongly worded and no-nonsense, which means the responsibility now falls on the US to make sure we keep to the spirit and letter of our own recommendations. This is especially important now that the Baby Bells are getting fussy about the state of their monopolies because of the kinds of competition the internet provides.
Dude, your post pages are messed up. Though I think it fixes itself once somebody posts a comment.
Now, I’m a little unclear on Condi’s argument. Is it something like: Only the U.S. can be trusted to have a control of the internet because only the U.S. government can be trusted to be incapable of exercising control over the medium.
I’d appreciate it if you never posted in the D&D Singulairty thread again.
Also, your blog sucks.
Wow looks like Cap’n anonymity has a singular joy . . . wait for it . . . more . . . being passive aggressive. By the by I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t bother with my crappy blog. The internet is vast you don’t need to seek out stuff you won’t like.
Hey, man, I post the same goddamn thing every time there is a singularity thread, and no one ever has a good response. I haven’t posted in there for a week; I’m sure it is still a failed attempt at a nerd theology.
Has any theology ever been successful? By what criteria would you judge that Eripsa? Certainly not by some qualification on “faith”?
I mean it is an attempt to build a nerd theology (or perhaps more appropriately, a nerd theodicy), and it has failed in the sense that it is entirely unconvincing. Of course, that doesn’t stop people from holding the principle, but the vast majority of nerds are skeptical and scientistic by nature, and a weak theory whose sole motivation rests on the impressiveness of the J-curve is insufficient for mobilizing those greasy, monitor-tanned masses.