> In return, the government demanded nothing: no compensation, and no constraints or conditions over how the Internet would take shape. This isn't true. The US

> In return, the government demanded nothing: no compensation, and no constraints or conditions over how the Internet would take shape. This isn't true. The US gov can and has put its thumb on the scale and used its position in the past. The .xxx TLD springs to mind. As is so often true, Jacobin ignores history as experienced by the rest of us in favor of their preferred narrative.