[esseph]

I'm sure all of that is true, but so is "Department of Defense".

They're also the largest holder of IPv4 space, still. https://bgp.he.net/report/peers#_ipv4addresses

[squigz]

Why does the DoD hold so many IPv4s?

[ErikBjare]

They were assigned a huge prefix at the creation of the internet iirc

[esseph]

ARPANET, precursor to the internet, was a DoD project.