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When people wave their hands and talk about the Internet they are conflating 3 concepts. The Internet infrastructure which is not free, the hosting of Internet
by zaphirplane 11y ago
When people wave their hands and talk about the Internet they are conflating 3 concepts. The Internet infrastructure which is not free, the hosting of Internet content which is also not free, the content which can be free when the content owner waives their rights. To get free "Internet" infrastructure and content someone has to pay for it and waive that in exchange for something. It's not free you are not entitled to free end of story. Pay for it in cash or in exchange for something
- restalis 11y ago"The Internet infrastructure which is not free, the hosting of Internet content which is also not free" This is not new, it's the story of how Internet is built and run, but so far it still remained free because there is value to be had in sharing a common infrastructure as opposed to everyone building his own network over and over again to cover the same place. So now comes Facebook and leaches the common "free" network built and paid by others, and then extends the Internet network pretty much in the way it was done till now but it doesn't offer it back in the same way! In this light I think that it would only fair if people start asking their network infrastructure providers to cease their networking service to Facebook! Let them extend and upkeep their own separate infrastructure on the whole Internet scale if they choose to do so!