Will the internet survive if turned over to corporate interests?

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Will the internet survive if turned over to corporate interests? Yes, I know that's a broad statement, it take it in relevance to the below article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/04/internet-governance-what-if-the-sky-really-is-falling/

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James Karaganis said…
No. It won't, although it may continue to exist in a Balkanized, substantially less useful form.
May 6, 2015 at 1:33 PM
Steve Johnson said…
With respect to this article, the enforcement of copyrights should not be handled through the DNS. That would be akin to government using its control of the electrical power grid for purposes of shutting down newspaper offices in case they reprint an article without permission.

Matters of copyright belong in the hands of lawyers and courts, not with government control of infrastructure. The problem is corporate content creators like Disney, NBC Universal, AOL Time Warner, et al, have been allowed to create a clusterfuck of controls and puppets at the government level to protect their copyrights. They have even perpetuated scare propaganda designed to convince people that government control of the Internet is good for us. 

When all along, government has proven it can't do anything effectively, but fuck shit up.
May 6, 2015 at 3:09 PM
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