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The internet was a government project. It's laughable to even imagine that if these billionaires didn't exist then nobody else would have invented video chat...

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It's not the invention it's the delivery.

Consumer goods are delivered by businesses. Delivering new, high tech ones is hard.

Discovery (basic research) is usually costlier than applied research (bundling, development, delivery) in labor costs.

no, creating the actual technical standards and the internet is/was hard. monetizing it and walling off sections of it is STEALING FROM THE PUBLIC that which we already PAID for and selling it back to us!

Zoom!? WebRTC! Proprietary XYZ? Standards!

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