Yes, Google is disrupting our democracy. But not in the way Trump thinks. - The Washington Post
Ultimately, we should remember that at its infancy, the Internet was funded by taxpayer money. As private corporations reap the spoils of this technological marvel…
Most of this article is pretty good in a mainstream academic way but "reaping the spoils"?
Speaking as someone who actually remembers the taxpayer-funded internet I can say with confidence those days are long gone forever. The modern internet and the technology behind it is, for better or worse, very much a privately financed operation. The government barely understands it.
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