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No one had a monopoly on "creating the internet". The government pays for basic, fundamental research, and as a consequence of those investments a new technolog
by seibelj 10y ago
No one had a monopoly on "creating the internet". The government pays for basic, fundamental research, and as a consequence of those investments a new technology we call The Internet was created. A good use of public money, but trying to use the invention of the internet to argue that the US government is controlling the economy is a total misunderstanding of basic facts.
- pastProlog 10y agoGovernment backed monopolies like Bell created the transistor, and government purchases from Fairchild kickstarted transistors. Also you attribute statements to me that I did not make, then say these statements you made up and attribute to me are wrong.