Who controlls the Internet?

[patrick at ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore)]

On Jul 25, 2010, at 13:24, Tarig Yassin <tariq198487 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I want to show you some obstacles that some countries face them every day.
> 
> For example when users from Sudan trying to access some web site they will get a *Forbidden Access Error* message.
> 
> And some messages say: you are forbidden to access this web site because your IP address appears form country black listed due to USA government policy.
> 
> 
> I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet?

No one.

To be more clear, no on person, company, government, or any other entity controls "the Internet".  Not even ICANN. 

Also, I am interested in examples of sites that the US gov't has blocked or otherwise somehow limited access.  Please exclude sites owned by the US gov't itself.  (Any entity which owns a web server can configure the ACLs on that sever however they plz as far as I'm concerned.)

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TTFN,
patrick