U.S. Strategy: Control The World By Controlling The Internet
A Chinese Perspective
US controls threaten Internet freedom
In May 2009, Microsoft announced on its website that they would turn off the Windows Live Messenger service for Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea, in accordance with US legislation.
In January 2010, Google, the company which owns the largest Internet information resources, declared that in order to establish a more open Internet environment, they had to abandon the Chinese market.
What is even more worrying is that Senator Joseph Lieberman, chairman of US Homeland Security Committee, recently presented to the US Senate a bill titled "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset."
To control the world by controlling the Internet has been a dominant strategy of the US.
From the network infrastructure protection of the Clinton era to the network anti-terrorism of the Bush era and to the "network deterrence" of the Obama era, the national information security strategy of the US has evolved from a preventative strategy to a preemptive one.
Meanwhile, the methodology has moved from trying to control Internet hardware to control of Internet content.
The ultimate goal is for the US to hold the ability to open and shut parts of the Internet at will...
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