Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe telecom companies got paid by the government to do it, they just as easily could have paid themselves to do it but we as a society are allergic to the idea of taking money out of the hands of poor billionaires and their potential profits
Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That doesn’t undermine my argument that it was ultimately because of the capitalists that the internet spread in the first place.
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It does undermine your argument though, because you are saying that it only spread because of capitalists. I’m telling you it spread because of government funding and capitalists were just the medium by which the funding was used. The capitalist part is replaceable and unnecessary.
Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
It doesn’t work just by you saying it. According to multiple sources, the government clearly didn’t want to fund commercial internet and largely backed out during the 90s.
It doesn’t matter if you think it’s replaceable, I can make that claim too. What matters is what actually happened in reality.
Blemgo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Could you explain how it doesn’t undermine your argument?
Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Clarified here