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2005

Who Controls the Internet? – Why it doesn’t matter if the United States is in charge. By Adam L. Penenberg

Slate offers a quick overview of the salient points with regard to recent rumblings by various countries about the US holding too much control over “the internet” and what consensus was reached at the WSIS conference in Tunisia two weeks ago.

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