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Q: Which part of the Web is public (like the roads)? A: None. - Apple is a private entity. - Verizon (and all other ISPs) is/are a private entity. - Telecom
by jazzyk 8y ago
Q: Which part of the Web is public (like the roads)?
A: None.
- Apple is a private entity.
- Verizon (and all other ISPs) is/are a private entity.
- Telecom equipment and communication hubs are private entities.
If they wish, they can make you a non-existent entity (on the Web). We have two options:
- regulate some companies as utilities
- build a public network (just like the roads).
- undseg 8y agoHaving the basic right of internet access being treated as a public utility would help greatly with these issues, I agree. It would help with monopolies and issues with regulation. Of course, I don't see such an opinion being particularly welcomed here. A chunk of the basic infrastructure of the internet is free just out of sheer luck (good willed inventors and founders).