who controls the internet?

When the Internet was originally designed, one of the goals was that there would be no “central point of failure”. It was originally a military project, and the idea was that the network would keep functioning even if it got damaged. Even if you were to damage the Internet so much that if was broken into two completely separate pieces, those two pieces would still work. You would be able to communicate with every computer in your piece.

In that sense, no one controls the Internet. Every computer is equal and they all connect to each other equally.

However, countries and companies exert control over the Internet. For example, if you are using a computer inside a company, that company can easily control your access to the Internet. The company can make certain services and certain sites inaccessible to you by blocking them at the firewall. In the same way, in a country like China, the cables that bring the Internet into the country are under government control. So China can control all kinds of things with a nationwide firewall.

Similarly, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) exerts some control over your Internet experience. Your ISP can throttle your bandwidth or block certain kinds of traffic. Of course you have the option of getting a new ISP.

another answer which i would like to share when i searched over the internet is---The official answer is no one, but it is a half-truth that few swallow. If all nations are equal online, the US is more equal than others.

Not that it is an easy issue to define. The internet is, essentially, a group of protocols by which computers communicate, and innumerable servers and cables, most of which are in private hands. However, in terms of influence, the overwhelming balance of power lies with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, based in Marina Del Rey, California.

ICANN is a not-for-profit organisation that regulates online addresses, known as domain names, and their suffixes, such as ".com" and ".org". Since ICANN reports to the US government's Department of Commerce, the domain name process is effectively overseen by the US government. China, Russia and Europe have all expressed concern ...