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[ NNSquad ] Who invented the Internet?: The outrageous conservative claim that every tech innovation came from private enterprise
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." - - - 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-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad