Liberal Forum

Why should I trust you?...

Great, great point. The combination of Big Business and Big Government are literally fascistic. That's why your demand that the government take over the internet is stunningly stupid. They'll become effective partners and screw ordinary Americans forever. You're hopelessly clueless....

Oh yeah, the same government that wrote almost 2,000 pages of law micro-managing the financial sector and 2,000 pages of law and 20,000 pages of regulations micro-managing the health care sector wouldn't possibly run the internet. Can't you even tell believable lies?...

The government doesn't want to run the internet butthole. They just don't want Comcast and other big ISPs running it. And all your talk about competition is ****. This is what happens when cities try to offer local high-speed Internet service to their residents. They get threatened by the big ISPs....

No, no, Beltway politicians are the source of all benefits for Americans!...

The government has also been involved in aerospace, so let's let the federal government run all airlines. It's been involved in development of internal combustion engines, so let's let the the federal government take over all related industries including the auto industry. The federal government ...

Trust me, there would be internet without the gov't....

There would be no need for any infrastructure and nothing to bring to market had they not paid for the research that developed the protocol....

Read what I said. They did not invest in the infrastructure nor bring it to market....

The Internet was originally developed by computer scientists whose research was heavily financed by the federal government, most notably through Darpa, the research arm of the Defense Department, so yes the government invested and built it. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the TCP/IP on a gover...