26 Apr
2021
26 Apr
'21
3:44 p.m.
That would be true if “the Internet” was still fully comprised of American providers and customers. That hasn’t been the case for a long, long time. On 26 Apr 2021, at 16:27, Mel Beckman wrote:
Owen,
Well, no. The Internet — meaning the ISPs and customers that comprise it — get substantial subsidies to this day. But that’s no call for the government to be obtuse with the purposes of its IP space.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/more-than-300-companies-participate-in-inter...
-mel
On Apr 26, 2021, at 11:05 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
On Apr 24, 2021, at 16:34 , Jason Biel <jason@biel-tech.com> wrote:
The internet that is subsidized by that same Government….
Uh, s/is/was/
There’s really no subsidy any more.
Owen