Amazing how clear every thing becomes when you take a deep breath!... and 
burry your head in the sand.


On Monday, August 29, 2016 1:43:22 AM MST stevensspam@cox.net wrote:
> My suggestion?
> 
> Taking a deep breath, pouring the Koolaid down the drain instead of drinking
> it, and repeating to yourself, "I should really stop jumping on every
> conspiracy bandwagon I see."
> 
> Seriously, I have little doubt that if we had a republican president and a
> democratic majority in congress was attempting to block this very same
> change you would see articles criticizing the block and talking about how
> government can't do anything right. What's going on now is that instead of
> a single company holding a government granted monopoly to run the DNS and
> numbering system there would be a group of companies and organizations
> doing the same thing -- with a US threat to seize control of it again if
> they misbehave.
> 
> And as for fears this will lead to balkanization brought up in another post
> -- there have been threats to balkanize the Internet if control of the DNS
> system remained a monopoly held by a single US company or government
> agency. This is probably a damned it you do, damned if you don't decision.
> In the long run it's probably inevitable that no matter which way this
> decision goes there will be more fracturing. We're probably very lucky to
> have gone this far with as little fracturing as there has been. I can even
> see Moral Majority types on the right demanding tighter controls over the
> Internet in the US to crack down on "adult" content which would pretty much
> require making a US Internet with closely watched gateways to the outside
> (censorship and political correctness are not something unique or
> restricted to the right or left, there's just different names attached).
> Having thing not being run by one single company operating under a
> government granted monopoly might make it just a slight bit harder for that
> to happen.
> 
> But really, I suppose we should panic. It's not as if the conspiracy
> theorists have ever been wrong. After all Texas has been under Martial Law
> ever since Jade Helm, every Hurricane for decades has resulted in thousands
> disappearing into FEMA death camps, there's all folks who lost homes to 
> imminent domain to built the Mexi-Canadian superhighway that's exempt from
> US jurisdiction, and after a decade I still haven't gotten used to these
> new Ameros that replaced the dollar...
> 
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