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[-] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 224 points 10 months ago

Internet should be public like many other utilities.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

This is the only answer

[-] lengau@midwest.social 26 points 10 months ago

Cries in having a for-profit, NYSE traded electric utility

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

The internet should be entirely decentralized. We have the technology.

[-] PHLAK@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

The internet IS decentralized.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 10 months ago

Not nearly as much as it should be. In many places certain ISPs have near monopolies over internet access, and domains and dns used on the web are managed by ICANN. Sure, there's alternatives to that, but barely anyone knows or uses them

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 8 points 10 months ago

Not to mention things like Cloudflare, AWS, and GCP.

[-] PHLAK@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I understand what you're saying but it feels wrong to lump Cloudflare in with Google and Amazon. Clouflare, thus far anyway, has been mostly a force of good for the internet.

[-] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 points 10 months ago

So was Google in its first decade or so. Hell, I'll even grant that AWS, GCP and k8s have been mostly benevolent. But these parties becoming near monopolies for hosting or routing is costing a price of centralization.

[-] PHLAK@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Companies having a geographic monopoly over access to the internet doesn't change the fact that the Internet as a whole is decentralized.

That being said, yes, something should be done about ISPs.

[-] Neon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

hm, i didn't think about that yet, this is actually a pretty interesting thought.

I think we as a society need to have a debate about this.

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