The left-wing bloggers are having good time this afternoon making fun of Senator Toomey over his comment that proposed legislation might "break the internet." http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/toomey-privacy-rules-might-break-the-internet-1.php?ref=fpblg

Toomey is a knucklehead and probably deserves all the ribbing he is receiving, but his comment makes me wonder what would need to happen in order to break the internet. According to Wikipedia, the internet "is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies." Really? And we are allowed to just jump right in and use these networks? Who is paying for all that? (Don't make fun of me on this. I really have no idea how this all works)

The other thing that caught my eye on the Wikipedia page is that the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers (ICANN) "is the authority that coordinates the assignment of unique identifiers for use on the Internet, including domain names, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, application port numbers in the transport protocols, and many other parameters." Well, who the heck is ICANN? They sound like they must be the most powerful people in the world.

This is all so confusing, but the late Senator Ted Stevens had it figured out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE

I thought washington saw the internet as a series of tubes?

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That would REALLY piss-off the internet's inventor, algore.

oh, wow, more oft repeated propaganda.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

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Al Gore didn't invent the internet.

He invented global warming,,,,,,

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HILLARY .........JAILHOUSE
BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
0BAMA .......... OUTHOUSE

A HANE would shut it all down real fast.

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Parts pf the internet are shut down from time to time. Thats how they got one of OBL's side kicks a couple of years ago. They shut it down in part of SE Asia.
China shuts its down regularly.
There have been examples of various groups crashing countries by overloading it.
There was an example here in Australia when an online betting site didnt wish to be the victim of extortion. The group up to no good flooded the betting site with hits. It crashed one of the connections in & out of Australia.
A well planned operation could crash it on a large scale.

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I'm sure those plans are underway.

If you own the infrastructure of a portion of the Net, you can shut down that portion.
The more you own, the more you control.

Btw, wanna guess who owns the portion of the Net that controls all the utilities in north America?

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Donald Trump?

Al Gore?

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I'm gonna go with Larry Flynt on this one. because...

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