[128160] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Who controlls the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tarig Yassin)
Sun Jul 25 14:06:12 2010
From: Tarig Yassin <tariq198487@hotmail.com>
To: <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:05:59 +0300
In-Reply-To: <6AC149DF-F0B3-4BDE-9BDB-D506197B3CBD@ianai.net>
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probabaly every web server in USA e.g. Google=2C Verisign and sourceforge.
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What if a large orginization which has an infrstructure in many countires=
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accessing to thier Internet resources.
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my regards=2C
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Tarig Y. Adam
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> From: patrick@ianai.net
> Subject: Re: Who controlls the Internet?
> Date: Sun=2C 25 Jul 2010 13:55:56 -0400
> To: nanog@nanog.org
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> On Jul 25=2C 2010=2C at 13:24=2C Tarig Yassin <tariq198487@hotmail.com> w=
rote:
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> > I want to show you some obstacles that some countries face them every d=
ay.
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> > For example when users from Sudan trying to access some web site they w=
ill get a *Forbidden Access Error* message.
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> > And some messages say: you are forbidden to access this web site becaus=
e your IP address appears form country black listed due to USA government p=
olicy.
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> > I would like to issue a question here=2C who controls this Internet?
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> No one.
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> To be more clear=2C no on person=2C company=2C government=2C or any other=
entity controls "the Internet". Not even ICANN.=20
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> Also=2C I am interested in examples of sites that the US gov't has blocke=
d or otherwise somehow limited access. Please exclude sites owned by the US=
gov't itself. (Any entity which owns a web server can configure the ACLs o=
n that sever however they plz as far as I'm concerned.)
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> TTFN=2C
> patrick
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