Will the internet ever be tamed the way the Wild West was?

Question

Lots of situations in terms of laws have been proposed over the internet that reminded me of the way the Wild West is often referred to. Does anybody think the internet will be eventually regulated the way order seemed to have follow in the death of the Wild West.

Answer 1

With google and yahoo the dominant forces on the internet, they are becoming the fascists of the cyberworld. Google has worked with the Chinese to limit free speech on the internet, and not coincidentally have banned any advertising which criticizes their fellow-Stalinists, Moveondotorg. Likewise, Yahoo Answers censors, deletes and otherwise silences any strong critics of its social doctrine of multiculturalism.

Answer 2

Never, until the day (if there will be a day) that somebody or some nation actually owns or controls the internet. If the internet starts to get divided into different sections and every section was controlled by someone, then it would be the beginning of internet control. Then maybe the internet would be a virtual earth with countries and sections that you can't go into without a password. The leader of every section would be in charge of what sites could be posted and what would be posted on every site. Every "section" would have its own government or something.



Wow that would be amazing.................. Would the sections have names?

Answer 3

I don't think you can fully tame the Internet because nobody owns it. While government sometimes regulates it for child pornography, explicit material, and threatening content, there is no one who actually controls the Internet.



And you know...no one SHOULD control OR regulate it either. It's a free country and people should have the freedom to do what they want. Regulating it just gives government MORE power in our lives, and right now, we need LESS of that.



Give the choices and the money back to the people.

Answer 4

Unless cowboys learn to use computers, I doubt the internet will ever be tamed the way the Wild West was.

Answer 5

I hope we don't tame it in the same fashion as the Wild West was. The idea of Native Americans being slaughtered all over the place just doesn't appeal to me. But, we do need to do something about identity theft, child porn, international terror plots, you know, the stuff that makes us all sick.



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Answer 6

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Answer 7

Yep, once they decide its 'necessary' to trample our rights to privacy and free speech for the greater good.

Answer 8

Get off your mouse and drink your milk pilgrim

Answer 9

nah..it would rather be named and infinite knowledge LOL.



by the way the INTERNET WILL NEVER BE regulated...NEVER.

Answer 10

no theres no indians defending their home and no Calvary committing genocide

Answer 11

i don't think so.