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First rebuttal - I believe and know every single road and highway in this country needs work. Sending most of our money (taxes) to Washington D.C. is plain stupid! Only so politicians and special interest can decide what, when and where to spend our money. I'm a "States Rights" guy, I think individual states and local people should have a whole lot more say then a federal bureaucrat! I was only stating the obvious, governments at every level had a part in building our highways. Both the road type and the information type.
Second rebuttal - Two important men in the history of the internet are: J.C.R. Licklider "Lick" and Tim Barnes Lee (Not Al Gore). Both of these men are in the Internet Hall of Fame (yes there is one and Al is in it). No single person, university, company or government invented the Internet. As with most everything it evolved over a long period of time with many inventions and developments. If we wanted to split hairs we could give credit to Thomas Edison, Samuel Morse and Alexander Graham Bell (only a few of many). Work and development of the Internet took place in other countries besides just the USA, England and France had a lot to do with early development. There were several Universities that are also responsible for the World Wide Web as we know it today. The leading universities were: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Los Angles, University of Stanford, University College London, University Southern California and Harvard (there are many more). Corporations had a huge part, companies like: Rand Corporation, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Xerox, BBN, Digital Equipment Corp. IBM, and Telenet (again just a few).
If it wasn't for the United States department of Defense the internet would have been a long time coming. DoD spending on the development is in the billions of dollars. It started really under President Roosevelt, at the start of World War II. Really took off in 1960's in the DoD agency Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA and layer DARPA). This government/DOD agency developed ARPANET, the first computer network, in that a large mainframe computer was connected to other computer terminals at various locations (a network). This agency and universities funded by ARPA developed most internet protocols, programs, devices and practices for the Internet. (FACT).
Lets all do a Al Gore and take credit for the development of the internet. As it was you, me and us that developed the internet. It was our money. For the most part the internet is another American invention. I don't like the way our government is governing at all. On the subject of Net Neutrality I only know it should be available to all of us, with no exception!
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