Who Should Run The Internet?
from the I-should dept
Here's an opinion piece suggesting that the US government take a bigger role in "running the internet". The writer doesn't give much of a reason for why this should be needed, and seems to suggest the only potential downside would be censorship (apparently, slowing down the adoption of new internet technologies and/or mandating bad or obsolete technologies isn't a downside). He also doesn't explain what he means by "run" the internet, other than "protecting the Net's physical and network infrastructure". I don't quite see how the government could do that anyway. Basically, the writer is saying that "man, the internet sure is messy, and since I can't think of a way to clean it up, we should let the government waste money on it."Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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USA?
Typical blinkered comment from a USAn
(My apologies to those unblinkered USAns)
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hi....
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