Imagine you have a large diamond and several other valuable gems, all needing safeguarding. You can place them in the largest house on the block, the one made of brick, with 10-foot-thick walls and sporting heavily armed guards. Or you can place them in one of the other houses. These others are made of ordinary lumber, have few guards, and long histories of squabbling with others over petty politics.
Where will you place your valuables?
Get the picture?
The internet is best protected by the USA, the industrialized country with 297 million inhabitants, with the strongest and most technological military in the history of the universe, and the inventor of basic democratic principles like human rights.
The UN’s repeated, catastrophic failures (Guatemala, Cambodia, Rwanda, Iraq, etc.) demonstrate that the internet must not be left to the wolves, or, as The Guardian puts it, a “coalition of governments.”
You may as well cancel broadband and go back to smoke signals if the heart of the internet is removed from its creator and protector, the USA.
Of course, one must evaluate the source of this story: The Guardian. They make all their money by bashing the USA and Western freedoms.
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