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Common sense?

• Karunamon 12y ago
  You mean the ingrained, often illogical set of biases everyone has as a matter of living? Nah. Objective, verifiable info, please.
  • eternalban 12y ago
    Common sense would indicate that it would be highly improbable for the military-industrial complex of USA to hand over something like the internet to the plebes without first thinking it through very carefully. I would not be surprised one bit if SRI had not gamed this panopticon to the n-th degree in the 70s before Al Gore "invented" it for us. [p.s. I can not reply to a follow-up so for the record, ARPANET was not an 'academic' exercise.]
    • c22 12y ago
      If anything, corporations co-opted the internet from (government funded) academia. Then the corporations handed the internet over to us plebes.
      • psykovsky 12y ago
        Or that's what they want you to believe. Take your pick.
    • Karunamon 12y ago
      (for future reference, you can reply to followups by following the link directly to the comment - click on the post time like "2 hours ago")