• abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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    3 days 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.

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      3 days ago

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

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        3 days ago

        but that’s not how it is

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

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          3 days 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