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[eternalban]

Common sense?

[Karunamon → eternalban]

You mean the ingrained, often illogical set of biases everyone has as a matter of living?

Nah. Objective, verifiable info, please.

[eternalban → Karunamon]

Common sense would indicate that it would be highly improbable for the military-industrial complex of USA to hand over something like the internet to the plebes without first thinking it through very carefully.

I would not be surprised one bit if SRI had not gamed this panopticon to the n-th degree in the 70s before Al Gore "invented" it for us.

[p.s. I can not reply to a follow-up so for the record, ARPANET was not an 'academic' exercise.]

[c22 → eternalban]

If anything, corporations co-opted the internet from (government funded) academia. Then the corporations handed the internet over to us plebes.

[psykovsky → c22]

Or that's what they want you to believe. Take your pick.

[Karunamon → eternalban]

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