[128161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who controlls the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Sun Jul 25 14:21:56 2010
In-Reply-To: <SNT137-w5651FB6513D82C6116EFC4BBA50@phx.gbl>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:21:46 -0500
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: Tarig Yassin <tariq198487@hotmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet?
The global abstract Internet ? nobody.
Your government/service provider and/or the government/service
provider of the destination you are trying to reach may
restrict/block/redirect/tweak/tamper/sniff/shape the free flow of
packets.
Have you ever considered trying to use Tor ?
(http://www.torproject.org/ well if you can get to it :-)
PS. ICANN has no responsibility or operational role denying access or services.
Regards