[danaris]

Most of what "capitalism and capital investment" have done for the Internet are the things I, and many others, hate about it.

The original protocols and specifications still lie at the core of most of the Internet, and the infrastructure was, in large part, paid for by government subsidies to the telecom companies, the full terms of which many of them never fulfilled.

Even if one could realistically claim that "capitalism and capital investment" made significant positive contributions to the modern internet, the idea that any significant amount of those contributions would not have happened without the utter failure that is "trickle-down economics" doesn't hold water, either.

[redflame8]

Then setup your own private virtual network. I think what you are actually complaining about Is human nature to profit which will always exist no matter what government type there is. Since profit is a zero sum game it’s pretty dangerous in a society built around the commune. The people in charge of distribution always end up with a little bit more