We've noted for years how "Big Telecom" is desperate to have "Big Tech" pay them billions of dollars for no coherent reason. This effort is what began the net neutrality wars, and, despite the fact it's routinely dressed up as adult policy making, it's little more than a lobbyist-fueled cash grab.The effort always starts with…
Summary: In the early 1990s, facing increased pressure from the commercial sector who sensed there might be some value in the nascent ?Internet,? the National Science Foundation began easing informal restrictions on commercial activity over the Internet. This gave rise to the earliest internet companies but also to spam. Before the World Wide Web…