• @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      35 months ago

      “it seems so backwards”

      They set the shit up, so they decided the behaviors.

      • @abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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        45 months ago

        Yes, it is rather backwards for a handful of companies to own entire blocks of IP addresses just because. The infrastructure was massively funded by public dollars, it should be publicly owned.

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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          05 months ago

          A fair point indeed, but that’s not how it is. Public dollars were funneled one-way into private infra, in many cases.

          • @abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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            55 months ago

            but that’s not how it is

            Doesn’t mean it can’t be that way, though, One way nationalization also exists.

            • sunzu2
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              15 months ago

              Domestic terrorist spotted. Pinkerton’s have been notified

            • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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              25 months ago

              The world runs on contacts, and those dollars were spent around the globe. There are examples of what you say, with mali considering reclaiming ml. Nationalization can have a chilling effect on industry, but depending on your affiliations this isn’t really an issue