[ih] A paper

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:15 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
> On 19-Jul-21 13:03, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> ..
> > One of the design principles of the network (which
> > may not appear in "documentation") was that the network must not have
> > any single point of control, no one in charge.
>
> That was indeed the key to worldwide success, far beyond its necessity
> for "national security" reasons. Even today, the Internet seems
> remarkably hard to switch off, even in totalitarian states.
>

and in furthermore of the above a John Gilmore quip comes to mind:

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it".

https://kirste.userpage.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/internet-article.html


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