Have you ever wondered who owns the Internet, or what companies the Internet is composed of? Is it a republic, democracy, anarchy, or what? In this...
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The internet is centralized, the governments own it (51% principle). Don't fall for the illusion of anything "free" being decentralized.
Hi Lev, thanks for commenting!
While the government does have control over how the Internet is viewed (e.g., The government in countries like North Korea and China), it doesn't control the internet itself.
Well, if the governments control the content on the internet, couldn't one conclude that the Internet is controlled by the governments? I mean, what's there is to the internet if not content? 🤔
Apart from the dark web, your content can only exist on the servers of the countries, on which it doesn't violate any laws after all, doesn't it?
The Internet is not what it used to be in Web-1 days 😁
They don't control its contents. They control what websites citizens can access in some instances. (Not in free countries). And servers are not owned by the government, but by private companies and individuals.
I will refer you to @bwca 's comment
If you try hosting something, which is illegal in China, while being in China, I am pretty sure something bad will happen, even if you host it on your laptop.
Unless the government cannot control the Internet, cos it's content on your personal laptop 😀
I was it.
If I were in say Iceland, like many secure servers, or in the USA, like GoDaddy, or another safe country, however, it would not be a problem. So some governments can control what their citizens can see, do, or add to the internet, but they can not control the whole internet themselves.
They do control the companies and corporations who control 100% of the clear (e.g not dark) internet’s traffic. aka they own the internet.
As I know, North Korea has its own internet not wired with the global one at all.
Wow! That's crazy! I didn't know that...
I was hoping for deep dive into corporations like Amazon (AWS), Cloudflare, ownership per traffic (Google, Facebook, Bytedance). This would be interesting. Not to mention last Cloudflare accident, or last Amazon Aurora issues when 50% of sites was down.
That sounds interesting… perhaps it could be my next post. I wasn't really what I had in mind with this one.
Thanks for your post.
I would additionally recommend a previous article on the topic by Bert Hubert, who has a quite interesting background in intelligence agencies.
berthub.eu/articles/posts/who-cont...
Awesome, thanks for commenting. I'll be sure to check out that article!