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What do you think communism is?
Because the internet itself functions based on the ideals of Communism... Literally.
Who designed the internet?
Did they make everyone pay for it?
Who designs and maintains the protocols the internet uses to communicate with?
Do they charge licensing fees for you to use them?
Who writes the encryption algorithms that make HTTPS actually secure?
Are they open source?
Can you use them without paying a licensing fee?
Who designs and maintains the HTML specification?
JavaScript?
Video codecs that make YouTube function without royalties?
Communism is EVERYWHERE, and it's glorious. Why do you so utterly fail to understand what it even is?
There are many moving pieces to "the Internet". Literally none fundamentally work based on Communism. Any "free work" is a fancy version of Black Friday doorbuster sales.
The United States military and research universities. Universities fund research to attract prestige, patentable technology, court donations, etc.
The early Internet was not available, period. For pay or not. Al Gore as Senator, pushed for it to open it for commercial exploitation and commercial ISP's began. Unless you had 500 hours of free AOL dialup, you were paying for it.
Cisco, IBM, Google, AWS, and others hire engineers to sit on the IETF, w3c, etc committees. They publish protocols so their employers can sell new products or maintain marketshare. As a side gig, they also review and approve protocols like ActivityPub.
No, the expense is recouped when companies buy products that are built around those products.
RSA is a multi-billion dollar security company. HTTPS certificates are products that you purchase from Certificate Authorities. Let's Encrypt is funded by commercial companies to ensure consumer confidence in their main products.
Sure. The algorithms are also reviewed and approved by NIST, a Communist agency run by the Communist country, the United States of America. You generally do not commercially use use an algorithm if it has not been approved by NIST.
Yes. Again, the expense is recouped when companies buy products that are built around those products.
Google, Apple, Mozilla, etc.
As above.
Streaming services are communism now?
The misunderstanding is yours.
Bahahahaha you literally do not understand what communism is...
Do you think all those corporations contributing to the OPEN STANDARDS are paying each other to work on the open standards?!
You remind me of a quote: "Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."
I am not a libertarian.
Ah yes, the ultimate form of communism: VENTURE CAPITALISM.
And I think you need to investigate how a lot of open source gets funded (if it does at all) and why. It's definitely not communism and in some cases, it's a worse model than even capitalism.
The internet wasn't invented by venture capitalists, you f*cking pillock. Learn history.