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@magicalthinking@noauthority.social @Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club they regulate usage of the internet, they don't actually manage or run it right now (for the most part), I just don't think national governments that don't even manage or control the internet should be regulating how people use it

most of the world doesn't have net neutrality, and the USA repealed it recently (again), so packet shaping and blocking/censorship happens constantly online according to whatever your government just doesn't like that day, in the USA internet providers will check for insecure connections and inject extra advertising into websites just to rake money out of you (and this is technically legal), in other places entire protocols like torrents are blocked

The people responsible for running the internet should be working on regulating and managing more of it without intervention and demands from random governments, like US states that want to block porn, or Egyptian and Chinese governments trying to block news websites, letting some national government which only represents a fraction of the people online control how shared resources are used and accessed by everyone else is just shitty in general

This isn't even such a new idea, the people who built these systems understood the issues it could create, that's actually why the governments don't manage who can buy and run a website online, that'd be terrible lol