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Re:The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its va... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @12:36AM (#21690211)
> neither of these are exclusively owned by the US, but rather that the US owns the responsibility to maintain these services that we all use

For all practical purposes, these systems are owned by the U.S. because America maintains them. That lets the U.S. government cut it off to unfriendly users, the definition of control.

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Re:The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its va... by beiz on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @03:59PM (#21696651)
They are allowed to own and maintain and control these systems. No one is forced to use them, and if the US abuse it, they lose the control they currently are allowed to possess.
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