And so what? What are you trying to say? This guy didn't break into your house, did he? Or are you trying to say that stealing is the same as infringing copyrights? If so, then let me educate you. "Pirating" is not theft, it's copyright infringment. Totally different concepts.

- The fact that he is devoting a lot of time studying it. - The fact that he is articulate. - The number of people who agree with him. You obviously don't agree with him but what he says is important because it is the opinion of millions of people articulated by him. You don't have to agree with Benoit XVI or Aristote or Nietches and you can debate their ethics but saying that they don't qualify as experts is not enough, you have to understand what they say and make some counter arguments instead. Otherwise, your position is empty and you are the one full of rethoric.

100% agreed. THAT is a good argument. "It's our own" is a boggus argument and does not stand.

I understand you are probably trolling but let me get some facts straight. Yuo didn't "kindly let us use it", we decided to use it, because it was open and free. Nobody ever required the permission of anybody to use it. Except Slashdot, every single website I visit on a regular basis comes from France. I'm not even using Google.com if you want to know, I have a local version of it. It's not America's internet that we want to use, it's the global one. And we could not do that without the US or it would be a Global minus the US instead of a global internet. The US can not do that either. For your information there are alternatives to the ICANN, that are in use today. The rest of the world could very well decide to vote for another root domain and use it without US permission.

Come on, the Internet is not a thing "paid for, developed and a thriving platform", it's a fucking convention. It's a protocol, like a language if you prefer. It's not a "thing". There are several other network protocols and there has been several other protocols since way before the internet. In France we were surfing on transpac and X25 before we joined the internet. The world now uses the Internet, precisely because it is very simple and open. If you really wanted to call it your own, then have fun surfing on your own web site. If the British went around calling the English language their own, the world would juse use esperanto for good.