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That’s grand but nothing in comparison to wifi. Think about how video is being sent over the air. That’s pure alchemy and magic. Somehow video is In the air.. and being sent to devices all the time but you can’t see it.. so this databeing sent is actually in the air in the waves we cant sense. I find that amazing.

While you champion the internet's open communication and innovation, it's a double-edged sword. Governments wield control through regulations, surveillance, and even internet shutdowns in the name of security. This extends to physical infrastructure. Your vision of a free internet space might not fully capture the complexities, particularly in research environments. Here, foreign governments actively infiltrate these open spaces to extract valuable data. Like Plato's cave dwellers, we might be overlooking a crucial aspect. A nuanced understanding of government control and foreign interference is essential for informed discussions about digital rights and crafting effective internet policies. We need to strike a balance between openness, vital for academic freedom and international collaboration, and robust security measures that safeguard against the very real threats of foreign espionage and data theft. I looked after the cybersecurity of many of Australia's scientific government bodies, been head of cybersecurity for the federal research agency and also looked after Defensive cyberwarfare in our defence department. I can assure you the Internet is far from free of Government controls, and it is not our Governments I worry about.

Doesn't count when the entities that control the government control big tech as well. It's then a distinction without a difference.

So many of the problems that the internet has is by adhering to this wild-west mentality Lex. Do you know how easy it would be to zap all malware from the internet if that fear of regulation was removed. I remember when seatbelts and crash-helmets were mandated, there was an outcry about removal of freedoms. Yet how many lives and injuries have these regulations saved. There is a time and place for regulatory control and we are decades past that time for the internet. Think how many billions of dollars have flowed into terrorists hands by the use of scam malware on the freely available internet. Think how many lives have been ruined by individuals loosing their life savings to scam deals on the internet. No Lex, I disagree - we need government intervention to clean up the internet from malpractice. We need it yesterday.

Internet is free from control? And why corporate control on internet is never seen as nefarious as government control? Amazing how we're all brainwashed in this point.

Uncommon Carrier Regulations (aka Net Neutrality) is a big part of what makes it good, too. Certain authoritarian countries, unlike the US, have a more hands-on (to put it nicely) approach. The greater risk in the US, is the opposite - where corporations lobby to remove these crucial regulations and then completely ruin the internet. Starlink/satellite is a bit of a hedge against this dystopia, but you can easily see a scenario where you only have one choice of ISP and they completely change the experience unless you pay them. YouTube is only limited to 100kbps unless you pay them $50 extra per month, no accessing your favorite website unless you pay $10 access fee. No MSNBC or Fox access in swing states unless these organizations pay the ISP. All proxy IPs get blocked. Crazy firewalls unless you pay WWW fee. It goes both ways, but I can see from the government perspective because we have real life examples of countries that do this. So agreed. 

Most of the internet is not free of governance, but it will eventually lean towards using Artificial Intelligence to take privacy data. Phones are still not entirely safe anymore; most advertisements are based on our spoken conversations and hidden recordings. In many countries, defense and sensitive departments can access your private data. For instance, communication apps are still under some countries' defense control, allowing them to access all data on demand. Social apps have numerous fake and misleading accounts, making it difficult to verify users' authenticity. While technology brings innovation, we cannot deny its dark side. Lex Fridman

And corporate control is better? 🤨 The whole argument about state authoritarianism vs corporate authoritarianism needs to end. With neoliberalism there is no difference whatsoever, Adam Smith & John Locke famously wrote of liberalism that the state was created for the wealthy, the need for state was for the protection of private property, to protect the wealthiest interests against the poor. If there was no state tomorrow, let’s not pretend your ultra wealthy people would not have their own private armies and militaries.

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