Well, that's exactly what happened when some providers, whether willingly, tricked or coerced, relinquished control of their servers and routers to the Vixie gang. The deeper we dug in our research, the scarier it becomes. We live in Orwelian times indeed. This feels like the makings of cyber-McCarthism. In essence, Vixie and his followers control a tap capable to shut down at will the world-wide connectivity of anyone they so chose.
Central control goes against the redundant and distributed architecture of the Internet.
Surely, they claim to have built all this elaborate machine only to stop spam. They may have fooled many into believing that's all there is to it, but much of the smoke and mirrors screen falls apart under closer scrutiny. Below, we look at several plausible motives behind the MAPS conspiracy. The profit margins are very small, and most Internet companies never made a dime. Lots of small ISPs had to fold when deep pocketed giants decided to corner the market.