Who controls the internet?

I know why there´s such a fuss over this. He who controls the internet controls the present, he who controls the present controls the past... yadda yadda.

In a previous comment I read on here, someone tried to drag in some of the laws contained in the Patriot Act, (and misrepresented them badly at that..lol) and put them side by side with the current organization. From what I have been able to read, the organization that is ´overseeing´ everything has basically about zero control from the government. You bring up the laws on pornography etc and those are only laws put into place by the state and federal governments. And there is still a debate as to who should have those laws. One one last note, someone mentioned turning this over to the UN. I have to disagree with that point massively. With the recent scandels that we have only scratched the surface with, not to include the ones we still have very little information on, do you honestly want to turn something such as this over to a huge body of International Politicians that are not looking out for the greater good but just for thier own interests. btw I hate politicians on basically all levels...lol Shoot first, shoot straight, win always.

Politicians are sh!t, plain and simple. They are not interested in the rights of people but for their own interests. Thus, if we turned control over to another control, i garentee we will enter a dark age with the internet, where piracy and pr0n run rampant, despite the enormous security measures that shut down huge amounts of perfectly good websites. You cannot control the internet.

i don´t see IPv6 used on our level anytime soon, the tech is just not readily available, as far as turning control over to the UN bad idea, half the time they can´t agree on who´s watch is right let alone control the net they´d mess everything up

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