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> As a libertarian / ancap who believes taxation is theft, I don't support anything involving spending tax dollars, no matter how noble the end. It's a good th
by jim_greco 12y ago
> As a libertarian / ancap who believes taxation is theft, I don't support anything involving spending tax dollars, no matter how noble the end.
It's a good thing most of us don't feel that way and you're able to express yourself through a medium initially funded through Government research.
- icebraining 12y agoThat sounds like a good argument for government funding, except we can't see the privately funded "internets" that might have been crowded out by public investment. To make an analogy, Comcast could say to the critics of their monopolization that "it's a good thing that we are here, otherwise you wouldn't have any internet at all!", but would you buy it?
- jim_greco 12y agoNo I wouldn't buy it because your analogy doesn't make any sense. There was no private investment in the 'internets' to crowd out when it was being built. There are plenty of options for an ISPs like Comcast.
- icebraining 12y agoThere was no private investment in the 'internets' No? Then what were CompuServe, Tymnet and Telenet, for example, all of which started their network businesses without using the Internet/ARPANET protocols?