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Re:Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors? by syrrim on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:05PM (#17711734)
>it is possible to start your own ISP

And where do you suppose ISPs get internet from?

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Re:Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors? by CKN23-ARIN on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:09PM (#17711760)
From a blended mixture of peers and transit providers, such that a termination of service from any one peer does not take the network offline.
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Re:Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors? by syrrim on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:18PM (#17712151)
We have already supposed that all hosting providers have terminated you, and all DNS providers have terminated you, why shouldn't all ISPs terminate you?
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