[StevePerkins]

Oh good grief.

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: Imagine an ISP writing some text about "the American Internet". Imagine that it gives the impression of the American Internet being isolated. That foreign entities shouldn't worry (or lobby), because changes to American law or regulation will have no impact on the rest of the world.

In this scenario, I imagine there would be lots of comments about American arrogance. About how the Internet is more interconnected than that. About how ignorant Americans are, for not realizing that other nations' data flows through our pipes, and is subject to the whims of our legislators and regulators, etc.

People on HN are always so bothered by everything. Too often on posts, you have to scroll halfway down the page to find any substantive, non-meta discussion... rather than arguments about font selection or CSS layout, or various political tangents that people find more interesting. At any rate, the U.S. is deserving of so many legitimate criticisms, the imagined grievance in this sub-thread is flatly absurd.

[noxToken]

That's not just HN. That's anywhere anything about America is discussed. No matter what side of an argument it is, there is always plenty of criticism of American sensibilities regardless of actual relevance. We get it: we're all pompous, obese, gun nuts who have no consideration for any other nation than 'murica. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, can we focus on the topic at hand?