Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake w/ Ben Tarnoff
Tech Won't Save Us
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What Role Did Liberalism Play in Privatizing the Internet?
i'm wondering, like, we've seen communications technologies and what not emerge at different points in history, and the government responded to it in different ways. And so i guess my question is, what role do you think that liberalism and the political climate at the time played in defining privatization in the way that it ultimately took place? Well, another key moment in the nineties, of course, is telocomdy regulation. I mean, long story short, there is a broad ideological consensus here about the need to give the private sector total control over internet. It's really about the whole communications infrastructure.
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