@jeffcliff I would change EVERYTHING.

The internet was crippled from the day it was opened to the general public by telecommunications providers who wanted to treat internet access like phone service, retaining control while doing everything possible to keep their customers passive and dependent.

Allowing them to do that helped set the stage for everything else.

@jeffcliff We should have had the right to run our own network services at home protected as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The same act should have forced IPv6 adoption and the provision of static IPs to all customers.

@kaniini @starbreaker had we switched to ipv6 in '96 we could have gotten all the bugs ironed out by now

@kaniini @starbreaker

granted in '96 I was going on the www for like the first time and would not have been helpful towards that goal

@starbreaker did you know

that trump cited that act as a textbook example of regulatory capture in his book?

@jeffcliff Nice to see his ghostwriter wasn't wholly ignorant.