[LINK] 'kill switch' bill passes US Senate Committee

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 09:35 +1000, David Boxall wrote:
> On 25/06/2010 3:23 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> > ... most of the critical internet infrastructure is located in the US.
> > ...
> Looks like that needs to change, but can it?

Is it even true? If all links to the continental US were dropped
tomorrow, we would lose all the US content, certainly, but would we lose
"critical infrastructure"? There would still be root nameservers all
over the world, for example.

Interesting thought.

Regards, K.

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