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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous
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Tue Jul 24 19:17:17 2012
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Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that
every tech innovation came from private enterprise
Obama Was Right: The Government Invented the Internet
http://j.mp/N0vVGR (Slate)
"Other times, Crovitz strays into what seems like intentional
intellectual dishonesty. He mentions offhandedly that "Vinton Cerf
developed the TCP/IP protocol," but he skips over both the gravity of
this development and the government's role in it. TCP/IP is the
Internet's defining language, the only reason that any two computers,
anywhere, can send a message to one another. In this way, TCP/IP is
the Internet. What's more, Crovitz neglects to mention that when Cerf
created TCP/IP, he did so with Robert Khan, who was an employee of the
Defense Department, and that both of them were working under funding
from the government."
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I'm waiting for Mitt Romney to endorse honesty and publicly chastise
Crovitz's right-wing nonsense and lies on this score. Waiting.
Still waiting ...
--Lauren--
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