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If the government can't take Al Qaeda websites down, how do you think they can 'control' the web?

They will make it harder, but angry and motivated young techies will always find hacks and ways around the system. If they put in a passport system, six hackers will have it beat six different ways within six months.

If there is anything I've learned about government in the last few years is the depth of their overall incompetance. And as for getting different world governments to work together...well...I point to the United Nations to make my point.

Remember how Sony was gonna 'fix' their music CD's so you couldn't copy them? Took a hacker two hours to figure out how to beat it with a black Sharpie marker.

Their second attempt (the 'root-kit' hack) caused such an uproar over damaging systems that Sony pulled it within weeks of release.

I count Sony a lot more competent than most goverment computer cops of ANY nation.

Even China, with the largest internet police force in the world, has trouble blocking misspellings of 'tiananmen square' and other forbidden Chinese internet topics. Spend a little time misspelling blocked words and phrases and you'll find what you are looking for in China or anywhere else.