Was watching some history about changes in technology and something hit me. Each new broadcasting media was heavily regulated on release, none were without strict regulation. Even today, Radio, TV and Movies are all regulated. Why was the internet allowed to go about unregulated at least in the US?
Anybody know.
The internet is global, US regulators have no say in the EU, the EU regulators have no say in India, India regulators have no say in Brazil, Brazilian regulators have no say in Russia etc, etc, etc.
The internet is not just the US or any single country. And the way the internet works relies on routers and servers in various countries to make connections.
An example of this is my connection to RF which i ran a traceroute on and found the hops to be - France (my provider), Germany, Spain, Morocco, United States (cloudflair), United States (RF).
If any one of those hops stopped working for any reason, or was busy handing to much data to take another request then a different route would be found almost immediately
Some countries have attempted with varying degrees of success to regulate their bit of the WWW but any surfer worth their salt will know ways to bypass national blocks.