Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by eternalban on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:20AM
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I'll return the favor and consider your reply as a strawman. But even then, let's compare Ben Franklin's capital outlay vs the Federal government's in DARPA.
Issue is not IP. Did I mention IP? There are extant congressional records of discussions in Congress regarding gifting this technology to "business" in service of the American public (one presumes). There is an implicit social contract at work here.
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
by pcmoney on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:08PM
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DARPAnet is as far from
Twitter as the Wright Brothers Flyer is from a 747. There is no implicit social or legal contract. A gift is well a gift. No backsies.
Issue is not IP. Did I mention IP? There are extant congressional records of discussions in Congress regarding gifting this technology to "business" in service of the American public (one presumes). There is an implicit social contract at work here.