Who Really Owns The Internet?

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According to Internet World Statistics as of June 30, 2018, there were 4.2 billion people around the world using the internet. That’s about 55 percent of the world’s population. The lion’s share of internet users are in Asia – almost half – followed by Europe, Latin America, Africa and North America. Only three years ago there were just over three billion people using the net, so a lot of people have recently gotten themselves connected. Some of us perhaps couldn’t live without it; it’s how some of us make a living, either directly or indirectly, while some people would literally suffer withdrawal symptoms if you took it away from them. Our reliance on the internet cannot be understated, and that reliance is only going to become more natural. But who’s the proprietor of this thing? That’s what we’ll find out today, in this episode of the Infographics Show, Who Owns the Internet?

First of all, what is the Internet?

Well, it’s not one tangible thing. It’s made up of hundreds of thousands of networks and connecting everything is a great deal of technology. As one writer said on Quora, and we like the analogy, when we talk about the Internet it’s like talking about agriculture. Who owns agriculture? What is agriculture? It’s complicated.

But for the internet to work there has to be a lot of infrastructure, and that infrastructure is owned by people, companies, entities. The net is what you might call a giant and mindboggling plexus, which is just an intricate network of many parts that makes up a system. Within this giant plexus are nexuses, which can be important points where many connections meet. Information is carried from these points, which are servers, and that information is carried down what we might call digital arteries, or fiber optic cables.

Who really owns the internet? Is it a company or a government?

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Imagine the scenario where You own the internet... What's the first thing you shut down? 😈

TheInfographicsShow
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The Internet owns us, that's for sure

rea
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The Infographics Show: “Who really owns the internet”

*_The Chinese Communist Party is typing_*

evaristegalois
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The real question is Who owns the infographics show ?

animalsworld
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MEMES OWN THE

Oh goddammit never got this amount of likes before 😀

centertainmentsd
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*It would have been nice if you placed Melbourne in the right part of Australia! Its much further away and closer to the east coast! You placed it more toward the middle of Australia*

simpleeasycooking
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i like how this episode had no background music. it made it more serious and genuine

augustosj
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-But everyone knows government owns internet-
*FBI WAS HERE*

lorelo.
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did you confuse Melbourne with Adelaide? Melbourne is in Victoria, not SA...

niclani
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Who owns the internet?
*America has joined the chat*

generalkenobi
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Very educational! Thanks for the awesome videos! Keep it up!

chrwea
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These dudes are so smooth in the way the mention sponsors😂😂😂

brandonengland
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Well, I'm here early and don't know what to write soooo





THATS HOW MAFIA WORKS

cardboardsnail
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This was actually really helpful. I love business and understanding what I can use to expand a business. Now that I know I could own real estate online, this could be interesting to dabble in

nathanbrannan
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It's crazy I learn more on youtube than "School" Thank you for your content!!

tylerjaynes
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@the infographics your guy's material is always top notch, informative, and entertaing thank you for doing what you do.

brandonchaidez
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The location of melbourne in 3:56 is wrong. It should be in the south east of Australia

christophereng
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*I thought Internet Explorer owned the internet.*

generalkenobi
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I OWN THE INTERNET




Edit: it wasn't really edited.

nirhaber
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Spoiler alert "No one owns internet"

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