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I was thinking that since the internet is becoming more and more a necessity in this current age that it may be possible that, like highways, TV (sort of), and radio, the world wide web will soon be one of those things that we will pay taxes to keep it running but otherwise get free from the government. It would have many problems to it including bum fucking cable companies and the possibility of the FCC censoring everything but I think it may be possible and as I said before it is becoming more of a need every day so it may in fact need to become a public domain. So I want to hear your ideas on how this can work or why it wouldn't work and the obstacles in the way, how to over come them and so on. I think we can do it without changing the internet into a censored and super regulated shadow of what it is now.
I was thinking that since the internet is becoming more and more a necessity in this current age that it may be possible that, like highways, TV (sort of), and radio, the world wide web will soon be one of those things that we will pay taxes to keep it running but otherwise get free from the government. It would have many problems to it including bum fucking cable companies and the possibility of the FCC censoring everything but I think it may be possible and as I said before it is becoming more of a need every day so it may in fact need to become a public domain. So I want to hear your ideas on how this can work or why it wouldn't work and the obstacles in the way, how to over come them and so on. I think we can do it without changing the internet into a censored and super regulated shadow of what it is now.