Then they would spend billions and it would be worse than the current alternatives. They have no incentive to have more users, in fact it costs more to be useful than to just take money from the government and have no users
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0ddysseus@lemmy.world 1 year agoGovernments. The internet and the knowledge it gives to people is the same public good as roads, water, power, sewerage, etc. All of these in a reasonable modern society need to be owned and maintained by the government through taxation and provided to the public for free.
iopq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
whs@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Your government might offer it for their citizens, but do the taxpayers want to subsidize the access to other billion people on the internet who do not pay tax to your government.
As for my government, I don’t trust them enough to not push state propaganda in search results.
hansl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I get what you’re saying, but that’s still not free. You just roll up the cost in taxes.