Things I did not know, part

A BBC article is talking about America's internet-related image problem. We're percieved as being hellbent on maintaining total control over the net.

Whoa. We are?

This is one of those few stories from a non-US source that completely broadsides me: The world really thinks that? Even more unsettling, it's a BBC story, which is generally less biased than most sources, at least when it comes to stuff about the US. So, apparently, there's at least something of a feeling that in that "non-America" place out there, that America wants to keep an iron grip on the net.

Interesting.