A Private European Internet?

jakemk2 writes "Bill Thompson writing in The Register advocates a private European Internet to stop the fact that it has "been so extensively abused by the United States and its politicians, lawyers and programmers that it has become a serious threat to the continued survival of the network as a global communications medium" Read it here" His logical fallacy is , of course, thinking that the US has a monopoly on this kind of thing.

Re:Yeah that's right

[unicron]

Damn, I would've NEVER expected you.

If taken to its ultimate stupidity...

[Apocalypse111]

Dateline 2012:

The North London Internet was again attacked by the South London Internet hackers in an attempt to regain control of their fileservers in the North's webspace. The fact that many of these hackers could simply walk a few blocks and physically take the servers back to their own private webspace seems not to have occured to them.

The United States, which is still a part of the Non-European Internet (the mainstream computer network used by the rest of the world) was jubilant, and representatives from across the nation were quoted as saying, "Ha-ha!".

Re:World Peace

[unicron]

The entire thing is so ridiculous that it's not even worth putting thought into. To think that any one establishment, even the US Government, can control something like the internet to any degree is laughable. That's like saying "Europeans unhappy with the way the US government has been aligning the planets".

As Bender would have said it...

[ethelred]

I'll just make my own Internet. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the Internet!

Bill Thompson

[selectspec]

Bill Thompson is such an asshole that if you ordered a train load of assholes and only he showed up, you wouldn't complain.

Thanks for reminding me, Bill, why my ancestors left that ever diminishing and less relevant mound in the North Atlantic to come to America.

She's legal now

[Subcarrier]

it has "been so extensively abused by the United States and its politicians, lawyers and programmers...

Programmers? Errm, yeah, ok. Besides, who cares anyway, now that the Internet is over 18.

MWWW

[ThereIsNoSporkNeo]

Ah yes.

And in the year 2002 the MWWW (Mostly World Wide Web) was created, after the previous attempt, the WWW (World Wide Web) was determined to be too worldwide. The only people prevented from joining the MWWW were inhabitants of the USA and a guy from Britain named Murphy who no one liked anyway.

Next, we come to the robot wars of 2027...

See, the *real* private French Internet...

[Marc2k]

...would be inpenetrable, thanks to a heavily fortified firewall that spans the length of eastern France, dubbed the "Maginot Firewall".

Re:I can understand where he is coming from

[baldass_newbie]

Hold on there. Don't inject any sense here.

Re:Wow...

[DNS-and-BIND]

God forbid anyone should design their own site...such things should be left to professionals. HTML is deprecated, the web needs to move to exclusively Flash content in order to preserve sanity, as well as good-paying jobs. Indeed, legislation should be enacted that only allows properly licensed individuals to produce and publish web content, as the great unwashed masses have proven criminially incompetent at doing so.

Re:World Peace

[unicron]

I'll probably get beat down for this one.

Big oak tree down the street. 3pm. Be there.

Invasion

[Anonymous Coward]

And then at the first sign of a German Hacker approaching the firewall, they will throw down their keyboards and surrender.

Re:Bill Thompson

[SIGFPE]

Thanks for reminding me, Bill, why my ancestors left that ever diminishing and less relevant mound in the North Atlantic to come to America

Because they were such a bunch of raving Puritans nobody in Europe would tolerate them?

Mr. Thompson, TEAR...DOWN...THIS...FIREWALL!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think this is what Al Gore had in mind when he invented the Internet.

Re:trolled by slashdot again

[Tablizer]

I can't click two links without seeing white, blue and red, a reference to US, God bless America, Brightest Beacon Of Freedom, etc, etc. Tell me, do you know another country that sells itself so much as America?

Partial solution: get a monochrome monitor.