[Billthedrill]

...what is best way to manage what has become a natural resource for all of humanity...

This is a perfect example of the socialist paradigm under which these people operate. The internet is nothing like a natural resource, that is, it doesn't simply exist, it was built, and there were costs and issues of ownership attendent to its construction.

The idea here is that wealth isn't created, it merely exists, and it is the function of government to apportion it as if it were a pie. Not even Karl Marx went that far. He, at least, recognized the difference between a true "natural resource" and a manufactured good. But the pie analogy is appropriate - someone has to purchase the ingredients and bake a real pie for these self-appointed guardians of the public good to distribute. To them it just magically appears, and once it's eaten, will once again magically appear.

These idiots have ruined the economies of every rising state they've taken over. And they do want the world, they literally do.

[aquawrench]

The internet didnt come from the dept of defense.

[Alas Babylon!]

Excellent! I was going to say this myself. The "Internet" is made up of various businesses routers, computers, cables, switches, land lines, microwave relays, satellite links, electrical current and power, etc, etc. All of which had to be and is being PAID for by those businesses in order to get a profit from their customers. Take that away from them and why should they or even how can they continue to support it???

[tubebender]

...what is best way to manage what has become a natural resource for all of humanity...

You didn't give Jimma Carter credit for that quote...

[beckett]

Good post. "Natural" resource indeed.

[stripes1776]

This is a perfect example of the socialist paradigm under which these people operate. The internet is nothing like a natural resource, that is, it doesn't simply exist, it was built, and there were costs and issues of ownership attendent to its construction.

That quote in the article about the Internet being a natural resource was what I wanted to post about. Then I read your response. You said it all for me. Agreed.

[rightwingcrazy]

China et al are free to develop and deploy an independent internet infrastructure with its own protocols, hardware, software, etc. They could design it the way they like it, and control their own "natural resource" to their heart's content. Of course, the only ones using it instead of the real internet would be those who had no other choice.