Why the Soviet Union Didn’t Build the Internet w/ Benjamin Peters
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The Soviets and the Internet
i think what you have described there is so important, right, because it gives us a picture of how the ogas network was planned to be. In fact, in some ways, a network as we imagine it is not a network in practice. It's not a surprise that the soviet state imagines itself as a hierarchy, but in practice functions as a treadmill of competition and unregulated backbiting. And ultimately, nobody was planning to create these distributed networks with mass surveillance yet. So i note that this kind of ambiguity happening within the Janus perpa janus research laboratory at the defense department will take money from congress, but then we'll turn around and spend it on basic
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