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To counter the FCC’s attack on net neutrality, we need to start treating the Internet like the public good it is. The Internet was initially a product of public spending. The U.S. Defense Department first conceived it <https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/internet-public-dns-privatization-icann-netflix/> in the 1960s, following a period of feverish technological competition with the Soviet Union. By the early 1990s, the government ceded control of the Internet to the private sector, which had the putative capacity to host its rapid growth. Since then, the transition to corporate stewardship has stratified the digital landscape and isolated disenfranchised populations. http://inthesetimes.com/article/20784/fcc-net-neutrality-open-internet-public-good-nationalize _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
