[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Robert Stanford]

I can't remember where I read this, but I'm sure I saw a reference to 
the US postal service once suggesting that they should be in charge of 
email and it should be a paid service.

Regards
Robert

On 6/12/22 05:31, Alejandro Acosta via Internet-history wrote:
> Hello There,
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>   I think this is the right list to ask.  My apologies if my comments 
> are not accurate.
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>   I have heard a couple of times that there was a moment in the 
> history of the Internet where private companies were putting pressure 
> on the community indicating that the Internet had to be controlled by 
> a private company, that it had to be in the hands of someone, not in 
> their free will. Is it so?. I think these comments used to occur when 
> there was a big failure in the network (I think I've heard mostly when 
> there were congestion control issues).., probably in the mid 80's or so.
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>   Am I crazy or the above actually happened? If so, I'm looking for 
> information, documentation, references, etc. If I'm wrong nothing 
> happen, just let me know :-)
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> Thanks,
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> Alejandro,
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