Sunday, August 05, 2012

Who Should Run The Internet?


You want a G20 version of the top Internet companies. And you want that body to run the Internet. That is who.

US resists control of internet passing to UN agency
At present several non-profit US bodies oversee the net's technical specifications and domain name system...... They operate at arms-length from the US government but officially under the remit of its Department of Commerce

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4Chan: I Have Never Used It

Image representing 4chan as depicted in CrunchBase
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But it has become quite a cultural force, kind of like Anonymous.

4Chan reaches one billion posts
Based on stats from Google Analytics, between June 4th and July 4th of this year the site had more than 22 million unique visitors and 620 million page views — and those users are posting more than one million times each day

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