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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by memonkey on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:54PM (#25722648)
The assumption that a government model would cause a loss of innovation seems dismissive of what the government model has brought us in the past (DARPA, Space Program, nuclear energy, etc., etc.)
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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by JumpCrisscross on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:04PM (#25722781)
> The assumption that a government model would cause a loss of innovation seems dismissive of what the government model has brought us in the past

Government program != utility designation. DARPA, NASA and the Manhattan Project were not utilities. PG&E is a utility. It requires political consent to make significant changes.

I’m not saying utilities can’t be innovative. Amtrak and the Post Office are utilities, and they experiment. But they have obligations private businesses don’t, and that slows things down.

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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by pmiller2 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:02PM (#25722763)
You forgot the internet.
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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by Anthony-G on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:50PM (#25723218)
That’s probably covered under DARPA – though other academic and government networks were also involved.
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