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So because the Department of Defense invented packet-switching networks fifty years ago, we owe them fealty? Respect? Hitler designed the original Volkswagen Be

• schainks 3y ago
  Fealty is acknowledgment of loyalty, which is not what my my post suggests at all. If you were the son of a fascist, would you not still tell people the truth about your dad even if you told him to shove it long ago?
  • krapp 3y ago
    If I were the son of a fascist, I would tell people the truth that my father was a fascist. If people were complaining about the influence of fascism on, say, the footwear industry, I would not tell people the truth that my father invented those plastic things on the ends of shoelaces (that are called aglets and whose true purpose is sinister) because that would come off as an apology for fascism. That DARPA invented one small part of what would become the internet half a century later isn't germaine to criticisms of the influence of the government, intelligence or military on that internet. Silicon Valley has always been in the pocket of the military industrial complex, but most of the tech industry, to say nothing of tech and hacker culture, isn't from there and doesn't need to worry about biting the hand that feeds it.