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Re: Who controlls the Internet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jul 26 02:12:32 2010

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:12:16 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Tarig Yassin <tariq198487@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <SNT137-w5651FB6513D82C6116EFC4BBA50@phx.gbl>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> For example when users from Sudan trying to access some web site they
> will get a *Forbidden Access Error* message.
> 
> And some messages say: you are forbidden to access this web site
> because your IP address appears form country black listed due to USA
> government policy.
> 
> I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet?

clearly, the united states government does

randy


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