[Utah-astronomy] RE: Showdown Could Break Up Internet

Just so I understand: The posts here today seem to indicate that the US "controls" the internet. By that, are y'all saying that if "we" (the US) decided one day to pull the plug on the net, internet service in all countries would go dark? Do we really have that kind of control? I've always thought of the net as being something like the world's postal systems. That's to say you can mail a letter from the US to Germany but the USPS only gets the letter as far as the German border and then the Deutsche Reichpost or Bundestpost takes it from there whether the USPS continues to function or not. Patrick