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> There wouldn't be a western, democratic world without it. Citation very much needed. That's an extremely narrow view of history (and many of the 'villains' o
by gbhjnkthrow 5y ago
> There wouldn't be a western, democratic world without it.
Citation very much needed. That's an extremely narrow view of history (and many of the 'villains' on the global stage were responding to threats by the western, democratic world.)
> The Internet was a defence project.
The internet was an inevitability, but did receive defense funding and support. It is not fundamentally necessarily a defense project.
- dekhn 5y agoI think it's fair to say that the US defense industry played a critical role in ensuring that the Allies were successful in WWII and the world would look very different if Germany had prevailed over western Europe and Russian over eastern Europe.