UK poster. (For a moment I find myself wishing HN had flags :-) They say that “fish can’t see water” (or words to that effect). I’m glad someone writes an arti

UK poster. (For a moment I find myself wishing HN had flags :-) They say that “fish can’t see water” (or words to that effect). I’m glad someone writes an article like this from time to time, just to point out the water. I’m old enough to remember the early 90s Internet in the UK (my company was the one connecting businesses up). I also remember discussions we had about regulation, the law, state (implicitly, the US) influence on those 2 things, and what the future we were building might look like. Some of us in the UK were what you might call Internet Libertarians, EFF-like (in a time just before the EFF), the other half was warmer to regulation and government hands on “our Internet”. Their argument was that if we didn’t have UK legislators onboard, we’d end up just dancing entirely to US legislators and regulators. That the alternative wasn’t UK state interference or no interference (You weary giants of flesh and steel), it was the Internet according to some retired Admirals at IANA/NIC. I still think about this from time to time.