Re:Duffy and Cruz Introduce the Protecting Internet Freedom Act
by 010a on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @09:05PM
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The world trusts the United States to correctly manage the foremost reserve currency. Many countries trust our military to protect them in times of need.
I agree that making it more international is ostensibly a good thing, but in reality I haven't seen a good argument that the world, or the internet, would actually be better off.
Specifically, while countries like the US don't have perfect human rights track records, we are much better than countries like China. And if we're going to give them even a bit of control of this infrastructure because "its the right thing to do", well, I can't agree with that.
Yes, there are practically philosophical questions like "who gave us the right do manage this" or "what happens if we screw it up?", but in reality we're doing a pretty great job and until that changes I think internationalizing it would just be trying to fix something that isn't broken.
I agree that making it more international is ostensibly a good thing, but in reality I haven't seen a good argument that the world, or the internet, would actually be better off.
Specifically, while countries like the US don't have perfect human rights track records, we are much better than countries like China. And if we're going to give them even a bit of control of this infrastructure because "its the right thing to do", well, I can't agree with that.
Yes, there are practically philosophical questions like "who gave us the right do manage this" or "what happens if we screw it up?", but in reality we're doing a pretty great job and until that changes I think internationalizing it would just be trying to fix something that isn't broken.