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No, you are absolutely correct. It was designed to be decentralized. Hopefully when we look back in history, from a place where the internet works that way. We
by hitchhiker999 13y ago
No, you are absolutely correct. It was designed to be decentralized.
Hopefully when we look back in history, from a place where the internet works that way. We'll wonder how it was ever a single government / set of corporations that was 'in charge of it.'
- krapp 13y agoI can't see how the internet can be entirely decentralized, and still operate at the scale that it does. There are laws that must be applicable to the transfer of money and to business done online (at least for any business that wants to operate legally - obviously this excludes the Silk Roads of the world), to say nothing of the physical server, routing and power infrastructure involved. This is not to suggest that the internet must be centralized but I believe that the bigger it gets the more pressure there will be for corporations and governments to assert some kind of order onto it. And I think that for the most part, people want that. Most people want the internet they believe they have, in which they can check their facebook and pay their bills online and sneak their porn in peace.