EU wants to be anti-american isolationists?

[AlphaWolf]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26612.html

I sure hope the guy at the register who wrote that artical knows what he is getting himself into.

I saw an interesting response on slashdot:

The funny part is, if the EU cuts off the US, they also cut most of their connections to each other. Seems that their well-regulated telco monopolies can't seem to agree on how to set up peering arrangements, so large chunks of the intra-Europe IP traffic goes by way of New York and Washington DC.

Okay, I get it, he hates America and thinks that if anyone is going to excercise hegemony over European nations, it should be other European nations. Dumbass, it's called "Divide and Conquer", if the large multi-nationals (which these days are no more American than they are Bermudan, which is where they are theoretically based) wanted to make rebuilding the Internet in their image easier, they'd start by splitting it up into chunks that were easier to manage.



There *are* two spaces, always have been. One where we eat, piss, and fuck, and another where we think, converse, cooperate, and compete. That dichotomy has always been there, all the internet did was remove the last of the trappings of a connection. There's entire worlds in there, I know because I've helped build a couple of them, that have nothing to do with meatspace.

--Dave Rickey

[Romboy]

It has about as much chance as for the bill to get passes in the US for hacking consumers.

[DuDe]

EU wants to be anti-american isolationists?
Haven`t they always wanted?

[Sukh]

Erm, if you read up to the top it does say 'Guest Opinion' so....

But overall, Europe does get seriously pissed off when America thinks it doesn't have to listen to us

[Sukh]

Oh, and this Iraq thing certainly isn't helping.

[2fast4u]

Originally posted by Sukh
Oh, and this Iraq thing certainly isn't helping.

word

[2fast4u]

aside from that AlphaWolf, whats so shocking about this article? most of the accusations that the author makes are right. however its wrong to blame america for all issues that come up for that matter like the author does here. in reaction to that your own response has the same isolationist character btw ... :sleepy:

[AlphaWolf]

As if nobody in europe has proposed crazy laws only to have them either not passed or rejected later down the line? *ahem* (makes the DMCA look like a free speech advocate marching in china). Why does everybody like to pick at every little mistake we make? Sure as a nation, we may be perfect, but we aren't THAT perfect . I think you should all go pick on the french instead .

BTW: 2fast4u...isolationist? me?

[Sukh]

I can't be bothered to read that much, what's this 'ahem' you refer to?

[AlphaWolf]

UK is about to approve (or try to) its own version of the DMCA, only its more strict. EU is advocating implimenting similar measures into every european country.

And you all say that americans never pay attention to whats going on in other countries