Thought for the day...

Internet doesn't exist.

Just as William Gibson said of the then-imaginary concept of the "Matrix"... "a world within a world, a graphic representation of the databanks of every computer in the human system; a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate users in the Sprawl alone." Where is internet? What is it? It doesn't exist. We just agree that internet is there. All it really consists of is milllions of computers linked in a parallel network. There is no one computer that is internet, there is no one controlling power. It is governed separately by those governments who wish to deprive net users of reasonable rights to free speech; but overall it is a gigantic global loose canon.

All computers can access it, all countries are represented. There is good and bad online, and naturally there are promoters of the two. Wherever it is, it is doing pretty well on its own. Government control is not likely to either benefit the "internet community" or be effective in preventing the truly bad elements from taking hold. After all, trying to control internet is trying to hold back the tide. You can't control something that doesn't exist.