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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by bcoates on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:46AM (#8268548)
The history of the Internet as the most successful radical deregulation since the abolition of serfdom, or some other history of the Internet?
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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by mikeash on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:00AM (#8268618)
What deregulation, exactly?
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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by bcoates on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:45AM (#8268907)
The 1990s transition from the US Internet infrastructure being a government run research project to the multiple privately owned networks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Net...

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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by mikeash on Thursday September 04, 2014 @12:20PM (#8269111)
That wasn't regulation, was it? It was originally a government project that they then opened up. There wasn't any regulation preventing private equivalents, and indeed there were quite a few private computer networks with similar capabilities. They all failed once the internet opened up, because the government-sponsored, government-run network was ultimately much superior.
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