posted on Jun, 17 2003 @ 08:09 PM
whether or not the internet is really run from the NSA...
You have to remember that the internet grew out of a system used by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency... that is, the internet was
'invented' and built by an agency that serves the US military. We are, in essence, playing on the equivalent of an old, mostly abandoned, US
military base. The WorldWide Web, as we know it today, was not created by the citizens of the world... it was made by, and for, the military of the
United States..
That being said, the modern internet is really more like a combination library/postal service. Any email I send someone is the same as if I sent them
a letter... and, as the Bill of Rights protects me from unwarranted search and seizure, the NSA does not have the right to go through my email (and,
yeah, I know that they can, and would if I were an important person, but, they're not supposed to... that is, even if such and such legal case ended
with a ruling that the NSA CAN do random searches of email... the Bill of Rights is very clear that they cannot do such a thing).
Anyways (sorry to ramble) it wouldn't surprise me if the NSA was running the whole internet, and, so long as it's not performing unwarranted
surveillance on americans, I really don't care if they do serve as its base... after all, without agencies like the NSA the internet would not exist
at all.
And, no, Al Gore did not invent the internet.