who owns the internet?

[Chilwell]

I think it makes more sense to look at it as a decentralized global network just as someone mentioned above, if you say it’s owned and controlled by the government, it’ll give rise to lots of questions, like which government owns and controls it? I think the reason it looks like the government controls it is because they use their resources and governmental power and influence to access the internet’s data whenever they wish, which of course any other person can do if they possess the same resources, influence and power.

I completely agree with you. the Internet is not own by any single entity or government, it is a global network of interconnected operating systems that is designed for the purpose of international sharing of knowledge, ideas, communication, trade and so on.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I completely agree with you. the Internet is not own by any single entity or government, it is a global network of interconnected operating systems that is designed for the purpose of international sharing of knowledge, ideas, communication, trade and so on.

Yeah and that means that no one can actually claim any sense of ownership to the internet because it’s not centralized. The only thing individuals can do is to try to control access to the internet, like regulate or control the price of internet tariffs and so on. That’s the only thing i believe people can do, and not to control the internet itself.

[Agbe]

I completely agree with you. the Internet is not own by any single entity or government, it is a global network of interconnected operating systems that is designed for the purpose of international sharing of knowledge, ideas, communication, trade and so on.

Yeah and that means that no one can actually claim any sense of ownership to the internet because it’s not centralized. The only thing individuals can do is to try to control access to the internet, like regulate or control the price of internet tariffs and so on. That’s the only thing i believe people can do, and not to control the internet itself.

No body has a monopoly over the Internet as it's a network of shared information that is gotten from all over the world every one goes to the Internet for one activity or the other either you are going there to get information from the net or you are sharing information to the net by way of publishing papers in the net for those in the academic field the original idea behind the development of the Internet was primarily a network of computer's that is connected to one source sharing information with each other

[bitmover]

I think it makes more sense to look at it as a decentralized global network just as someone mentioned above, if you say it’s owned and controlled by the government, it’ll give rise to lots of questions, like which government owns and controls it? I think the reason it looks like the government controls it is because they use their resources and governmental power and influence to access the internet’s data whenever they wish, which of course any other person can do if they possess the same resources, influence and power.

I completely agree with you. the Internet is not own by any single entity or government, it is a global network of interconnected operating systems that is designed for the purpose of international sharing of knowledge, ideas, communication, trade and so on.

I think some entities do have more power over the internet than even goverments.

For example, Google, Meta, TikTok, AWS, X.

Those companies own the infrastructure (cloud ), they own the traffic, they own what we watch in their apps, etc...

Internet is not owned by anyone, but certainly a few entities have some control over the internet.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

No body has a monopoly over the Internet as it's a network of shared information that is gotten from all over the world every one goes to the Internet for one activity or the other either you are going there to get information from the net or you are sharing information to the net by way of publishing papers in the net for those in the academic field the original idea behind the development of the Internet was primarily a network of computer's that is connected to one source sharing information with each other

You know sometimes I just try to sit and phantom the possibilities and the vastness of the internet world, how the world is basically just based on the net now. The world has evolved so much and fast that you can do literally everything online, from getting married, owning a business, to buying groceries, I mean everything, which was initially never like this the millennials. Band still, there’s no say to what extent the internet still Intends to expand to.

[Agbe]

No body has a monopoly over the Internet as it's a network of shared information that is gotten from all over the world every one goes to the Internet for one activity or the other either you are going there to get information from the net or you are sharing information to the net by way of publishing papers in the net for those in the academic field the original idea behind the development of the Internet was primarily a network of computer's that is connected to one source sharing information with each other

You know sometimes I just try to sit and phantom the possibilities and the vastness of the internet world, how the world is basically just based on the net now. The world has evolved so much and fast that you can do literally everything online, from getting married, owning a business, to buying groceries, I mean everything, which was initially never like this the millennials. Band still, there’s no say to what extent the internet still Intends to expand to.

Your right because the Internet has really changed the way the world was use to especially in the areas of communication  and the way people relate the Internet to  each other before it was not so because communication was not like this but now you don't even need to make a voice call but with your data you can connect to anybody in any parts of the world it's that amazing before now you will have to write letters and wait for the mail to bring it to you but now the world has revolutionized to the point that you are just lke living in any part of the world the world is now truly a global village with the help of the Internet

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Your right because the Internet has really changed the way the world was use to especially in the areas of communication  and the way people relate the Internet to  each other before it was not so because communication was not like this but now you don't even need to make a voice call but with your data you can connect to anybody in any parts of the world it's that amazing before now you will have to write letters and wait for the mail to bring it to you but now the world has revolutionized to the point that you are just lke living in any part of the world the world is now truly a global village with the help of the Internet

The world has indeed evolved into a global village, thanks to the internet. Although while we are all praising the internet and benefiting from its existence and it’s contributions to humanity. There are also those who use this same internet and manipulate it to suit their own selfish agenda, indulging in malicious behaviours thereby making it look sometimes like it would’ve been better that the internet was never introduced. I’m talking about the rate of scam and fraud in our society today, people manipulate this internet and take advantage of naive people, which has become a major disadvantage of the internet today.