Who Really Owns The Internet?

Who owns the Internet? First of all, what is the Internet? Well, this is not a concrete thing. It is made up of hundreds of thousands of networks and connecting everything is a great deal of technology. As one writer stated on the quota, and we like the analogy when we talk about the Internet like talking about agriculture. Who owns agriculture? What is agriculture? This is complex. But for the Internet to work there must be a lot of infrastructures, and this infrastructure is owned by people, companies, institutions. The net is what you might call a huge and brain paralysis, a complex network of multiple parts that make up a system. Within this massive net is the nexus, which may be important points where multiple connections are found. Information is taken from these points, which are servers, and that information is taken down to what we might call digital arteries, or fiber optic cables. Some companies have these huge servers, sometimes called server farms. Some of these server farms are so large, they receive an incredible amount of electricity to power them. Forbes tells us that the largest in the world is the Range International data hub in China, measuring 6.3 million sq. ft. The second-largest is the one in Nevada is called the Switch Supernal, which is about 2.2 million square feet. Some of the Switch's customers include big names such as Fox Broadcasting, Intel, eBay and Boeing. In 2016 it was reported that Google had around 2.5 million servers worldwide, but this number is a rough estimate. Different servers of Google works differently. While you are searching for things, some of them are dedicated to your queries, while some others may be dedicated to archiving documents. Facebook has a set of large data centers, of course, to hold more than 2.6 billion of its users. So yes, someone owns those data centers, which makes it possible for those people to use the Internet. Then you have telecommunications companies that own fiber optic cable. These cables cross borders and are threaded under the oceans so that people across the planet can be connected. If you are wondering what is the difference between a normal cable and a fiber optic cable, it is that instead of electrical pulses, light is sent through a glass strand that allows data to be sent rapidly and over very long distances. Gives. How long is it? 

Well, as long as you want. So why not always use fiber optic cable instead of normal cable? Forbes wrote in 2018 that this would, in fact, be the right scenario, but it could be expensive because every 40-60 miles (64–96 km) you have to have something called "in-line amplification shelters". They maintain the electronics and keep the cable active. It is expensive to start placing this cable everywhere. However, we have been told that the longest terrestrial fiber optic cable is 6.4 thousand miles (10,358.16 km) long. It is owned by Telstra Corporation of Australia. Its cable again stretches between Perth and Melbourne. Australians might be thinking, wait a minute, not too far apart from those cities. Well, it depends on how the cable was laid. There is also something called a "fiber-optic link around the globe" (FLAG) and it stretches 17.4 thousand miles (28,000 km) underwater and runs from North America to the UK to Japan to India. It is owned by Global Cloud Change which is a subsidiary of an Indian company called Reliance Communications. It is one of the largest telecom companies in the world and it helps all of us stay connected. We have moved forward in great progress since dial-up internet. So, while no one owns this thing called the internet without these huge data centers and without all the cables connecting us, as we know, we will not have internet. There are also ISPs (Internet Service Providers), which are large companies that ensure that the Internet reaches your home. These companies can control the speed of your internet, or even what you can access. You are following the recent controversy over the recent change in net neutrality, or what is called the end of "free internet" with its end. This is an ongoing story. Then you have a significant similar called "Internet Corporation for Named Names and Numbers". The motto of this non-profit is "One World, One Internet". In a paper, published by ICANN wrote that some people think that it actually "runs the Internet." Perhaps some people think that ICANN is the biggest owner of the Internet. This is not true, but it is very important. ICANN wrote, "Finding out who handles the Internet ecosystem can be difficult." In layman's terms, ICANN stated that if you want to reach someone else on the Internet, you need a destination name, otherwise you can't go anyway. ICANN coordinates this traffic, if it does not, there will be no Internet. You have a domain name system (DNS) and you have IP addresses. We cannot remember many and many numbers (IP), so we have names that we can all remember easily. Think of it as a phone number and address. ICANN manages them, so we can all reach each other. "No person, organization, or government controls the Internet," writes ICANN, which is appropriate for our show. But for this to work we need some kind of management, so we can connect with each other. We have the foundation of a building; we have all the technology that allows it to function as a functional building, and we have a system that makes all of its individual parts work harmoniously. There are many other important things involved in the Internet race. Even though to some extent we are free to exchange any information as we wish, it is polished in various ways. We have the Internet Society, which formulates standards and policies. We have an Internet Engineering Task Force, which helps maintain the architecture of the Internet. Companies and governments also work together to do this, although this relationship is not always harmonious. As users, we are also responsible for what we put into this great plexus, and the data we put into it is used and sometimes sold.

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