[128159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who controlls the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sun Jul 25 13:57:38 2010
In-Reply-To: <SNT137-w5651FB6513D82C6116EFC4BBA50@phx.gbl>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:55:56 -0400
To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 25, 2010, at 13:24, Tarig Yassin <tariq198487@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I want to show you some obstacles that some countries face them every day.=
>=20
> For example when users from Sudan trying to access some web site they will=
get a *Forbidden Access Error* message.
>=20
> And some messages say: you are forbidden to access this web site because y=
our IP address appears form country black listed due to USA government polic=
y.
>=20
>=20
> I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet?
No one.
To be more clear, no on person, company, government, or any other entity con=
trols "the Internet". Not even ICANN.=20
Also, I am interested in examples of sites that the US gov't has blocked or o=
therwise somehow limited access. Please exclude sites owned by the US gov't=
itself. (Any entity which owns a web server can configure the ACLs on that=
sever however they plz as far as I'm concerned.)
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
