There’s an old article by Bill Gates somewhere (an e-mail to Dave Winer if memory serves) where he doesn’t believe attempts to own the internet are likely to succeed. This doesn’t prevent a lot of people from trying, including some parts of Microsoft, probably. The candidate du jour are the telecom companies, since they own the pipes.
Susan Crawford has an interesting post on the subject. May I add that this discussion cannot stay on purely US-centric grounds (we’re not in 1995 anymore) and that what Susan describes as more important than some private interests is very near to what some European countries would call a public service?
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