Does any one know 2 powers that the state can use to control global communications like the internet?
917607
The IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) and the internet architesture board (i think) are Owned (in the first case) and controlled (in the latter) By The US Department of Commerce. A recent international conference on the INternet tried to wrestle some of this power away into the hands of a UN-Led body - whether this will happen is yet to be seen. Also it is worth noting that the US Govern,ment effectively invented the internet, and it is only because of its structural nature that they lost much of that control. \n\nBy the way - the IANA Issues all the I.p. addresses and .com/.co.uk/.org type postfixes. \n\nHope this helps.
111405
Let's not be naive, what is right or legal will not stop those with power from learning what they want to know. Our technological advances in the field of communications have presented an irresistible opportunity for those with power to abuse our rights. Our only hope for the future is that these powers are somewhat benevolent torward us. The only place you can know,... really know, that you have privacy, is the thoughts in your head.
904965
Internet is a conduit, it is more like electricity that cable though.\n\nIt will allow the convergence of media, communications and entertainment for 3G - games, girls and gambling
1120044
A means of having some control over the ways of accessing your network from outside and also imposing restrictions on accessing external resources(possibly harmful) from inside your network.
404053
You got it. We have laws governing laws. What does that tell you. We are being regulated to death. A good many of these useless laws are unenforceable, because they involve 24/7 tabs on everyone, and this is impossible.
908865
great question! hmm.. I guess the easiest thing to do would be to take down the root servers and IANA ICANN servers, which currently are ALL located in the U.S. and under U.S. sovereignty, which really angers the rest of the world. For the next few years ICANN will still be wholly operated domestically, but it remains to be seen what will happen beyond that. At the moment the U.S. technically has the power to "take down" the entire internet due to this topology. \nIt's really not possible to destroy the internet from the outside; most of the infrastructure that would be succeptible to an attack is distributed via anycast, and doesn't have a true physical location. Therefore, redundancy would kick in and nothing would "go down." However, all it would take is a corrupt entity within ICANN or the U.S. dept of Commerce to internally destroy the internet. It wouldn't take long for communications to rebuild themselves though, and in the process, other nations might find ways to permanently avoid dealing with ICANN and our root servers completely. scary!
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Internet : \n\n                        The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.\n\nContrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc.; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is accessible via the Internet, as are many other services including e-mail, file sharing, and others described below.\n\n\nCreation of the Internet :\n\nThe Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.\n\nThe USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution.\n\nIn 1950, Licklider moved from the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University to MIT where he served on a committee that established MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He worked on the SAGE project. In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing.\n\nLicklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching (as opposed to Circuit switching) to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet. Following on from this, the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981.\n\nThe first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by 1 January 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. (This date is held by some to be technically that of the birth of the Internet.) It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1985. Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the NSFNet include Usenet, Bitnet and the various commercial and educational X.25 Compuserve and JANET. Telenet (later called Sprintnet), was a large privately-funded national computer network with free dialup access in cities throughout the U.S. that had been in operation
399031
The hard part about this would be getting distance networking going.  You would either have to have some majorly expensive equipment, that communicates via satellite to receive internet service, or else the infrastructure would have to be put into place in the areas you're working in.  It depends on what kind of distance you're talking about, really, but honestly, you're looking at some MAJOR costs, and potentially even a lot of bureaucratic red tape depending on the method of transmission between the sites.
102427
I was actually VERY curious to hear about the upcoming internet 2, although I havent found much information on it at all, I am intrested in Hex IP addressing though (IPv6). Although the question still begs me, how exactly do you make a successor to the internet? Upgrading the backbones, and allowing millions (if not billions) of IP addresses on the network? I have a feeling more is coming that just that.
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internet is a vast medium, there are countless resources of information on the internet.\n\nin my opinion there should be some controlled resources of information and some without censor.\n\nfor example u can search for a specific topic on controlled resources such as microsoft encarta, or wikipedia and then search the same thing on freenet.\n\nin this way u can decide on your own, which one is better.
424179
Think about it this way, ten years ago, you wouldn't have been able to access the Internet in China.  Small steps.  Too much and China could collapse into another Russia.
301968
Obviously it is, but there's nothing anyone's going to do to stop it.  Watch the Terminator movies, especially the third.  The internet is going to turn into Skynet thanks to technology like this.
143324
The FCC for one, they control the airwaves (tv cable cell phones satalitte tv etc) ATF if you smoke or drink or own a firearm, DOT if you drive
1059627
Federal goverrnment oversees the states. Imagine each state as it's own country then giving them a higher authority to answer to.
72504
The supream court actually held a conference befor the internet became wide spread and ruled very accuratly about the internet. I am not really sure why they changed some of there views but i bet they overturn them all at some point. It could just be a test to see and show what happens if you try to regulate it. Here is what they said or a summary of it. \n\nThe internet is a realm that lives outside of time and space therefore it is impossible to regulate it in this context. \n\nThe fact is as information storage and internet speeds increase everything will be avialible to everyone and it will be uncontitutional to regulate it. The 9th ammendment will see to this.
812454
they are both means of control for the masses
959247
The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail , online chat , file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web .