I don’t think there’s any question the internet is the new battleground for population control (beyond television), with content control effectively being one and the same as far as use of technologies are concerned.
Interestingly I just ran a ‘namebench’ test last night and the results are quite detailed as far as DNS performance go. Find it here: https://code.google.com/p/namebench/wiki/UsingNameBench
That test will take a few hours, but will check against thousands of sites using your own servers, whilst concurrently providing alternatives (with a speed comparison rating).
I notice the U.S. is still looking to extradite Kim Dotcom: http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-brands-kim-dotcom-fugitive-spies-others-141120/