I believe you are correct, the story states, 'In a post earlier this month, popular tech blogger Anil Dash lamented ''the web we lost''.'

Software is real now ?

Descartes would be rolling in his grave.

Prisoners are allowed to own a business while in prison.

Are you sure the intent of a corporation can be used to ban their operation in the US ?

e.g Would someone associated with the mafia (but not charged) be banned from running a legitimate buisness ?

"None of the major parties are going to give high preferences to this new party"

Do you remember the ALP (center left) preferencing Family First, a right wing christian fundamentalist party before the greens. Parties do really weird things with preferences.

Its very naive to think you can predict who will win the last senate seat, DLP won a senate seat with a 1.9% primary vote.

Australia has always had trouble standing up for itself, it used to hide behind Britain, now it hides behind US.

Yes there have been protests, but both major political parties are very similar on "national security", and neither have shown him any respect, despite significant popular support amongst voters.

There used to be a minor center party (Australian Democrats) with a slogan "Keep the bastards honest" which did pretty good for a while, but lost the ground in the center to the major parties. If wikileaks can revive that niche they could win votes from the major parties rather than taking votes from the Greens.

Some big politcal names will write him off straight away, but they embarrassingly just dont understand what hes about, or the demographic that supports him.

He is a chance for a big protest vote, his undoing may be the need to compromise to get things done in politics.

Isnt that what the UN is ?

How many elected US government officials have;
  - Overseen and supported extensive national and international surveillance of the internet.
  - Supported warrantless/roaming wiretapping laws which some argue are unconstitutional.
  - Supported a tiered internet
  - Proposed taxing the internet.

So much propaganda flowing in support of ICANN.

why the people who are most vocally calling for the ITU to not take active control over governance of the internet are representatives (or fanbois) of the US government which has the strongest history of international domain name seizures, and RL invasions and seizures of foreign property.

(us being the United States)

I believe India has the most extreme form of capitalism in the world, if true, shouldnt you consider India to be a greater country than the US.

P.S. oh and greatest country ever, seriously ? I hear Rome was pretty good in its time (for romans at least).

This is why the US cant be trusted to control the internet.

They did do very well with their propaganda campaign against the UN though.

People are part only part of social groups that they see as interesting.

Chicken and egg.

So we need permission from the US to enforce international copyright agreements now ?

By the poster, do you mean me (the parent), who lives only speaks english, and whos narrative is to make the point that Israel has been aggressive in the last 50 years.

I take the Hint as indication that your are somewhat discriminatory in your views on this topic.

If you cannot find one case in the last 50 years where Israel has been the aggressor (which is not to say others havent been the aggressor at other times) then no amount of data would be accepted by the likes of you.

There is no point showing data to one who does not understand Logic.

You claim that Israel, having not committing an unprovoked attacked on one specific country (Egypt, which i don't know is true), is proof that Israel wants to leave everyone alone.

Thats like saying there is one kid the school bully hasnt beat up, so that is proof he isnt a bully.