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Vint Cerf at IGF: Government Control of Internet Likely to Fail

In an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the Internet Governance Forum in Brazil, Vint Cerf said the fact that the Web is almost entirely privately owned is a major obstacle to such control.

"I believe it will be very hard to accomplish that objective for one simple reason — 99 percent of the Internet, the physical Internet, is in private sector hands, operated by the private sector," he said, defending a different governance structure made up of multiple stakeholders.

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