Oh and on that note, no one can *truly* control the internet.

Not that they won't stop trying to control it.

You know what happens when people start going totalitarian on the world wide web?

People just move on to the deep web.

And that's where their control ends, really

it's not a problem you can get around unless you know about these things though

like an average user of the internet would know nothing about the deep web

I wouldn't underestimate the power of mouth to mouth communication

I suppose so

Going totalitarian on the entire internet will be a terrible mistake for the ones trying it.

They're the ones who will suffer for it.

yeah, but a generation that was born into that sort of thing wouldn't realize that it's not normal

I've never credited the people who try to do this with any abundence of intellectual capacity.

but I doubt anyone would suddenly forget what a free internet was like or not talk about it

SJWs don't seem to get that their attempts to censor people is what's killing their movement.

The point is, even if someone did try something, it wouldn't work out for them.

Censorship is a self-defeating action and those who do it are always too stubborn and stupid to understand that.

maybe they'll just peter out from in fighting eventually to see who has the most oppression points

The internet is the most people-empowering thing that exists in this world.

It's impossible to control.

you can control someone's access to it though

or access to parts of it

unless they learn of a workaround from an outside source

Its power to affect society is why people try to control it. They, rightly, see it as a threat to their power.

I don't think people are so unresourceful to not find it.

Google can find shit tons of things that government doesn't even think about.

but do people have access to google?

or government regulated search engines

You think google will accept its users becoming unable to access it?

well if a government blocks access, as I'm sure they do and have done then what is google gonna do?

How about Islamic countries banning all criticism on Islam...

The internet user is google's life blood. They can't just let them go.

they don't let them go, they never get them

Governments already block access to sites regardless of whether or not the US controls the DNS registry

I know, but it could be done across the board in this case

not just in a localized area or country

I don't know, all the logistics involved seem incredibly impractical.

it does seem impractical, but if they make small changes over time then whose to say they couldn't acomplish such a thing?

You know who notices small changes?

Our Google, who art in cyberspace,
Hallowed be thy domain.
Thy search to come,
Thy results be done,
On 127.0.0.1 as it is in the Googleplex.
Give us this day our daily searches,
And forgive us our spam,
As we forgive those who spam against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from Microsoft.
For thine is the search engine,
And the power,
And the glory,
Forever and ever.
Amen.

especially with google jigsaw and the censor ship of "hateful" language