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| reply to Tsume
Re: hmmm
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
The poster child of centralized-decentralization. With one stroke, one company affected thousands of other companies and individuals, exactly what the web was supposed to prevent in the first place.
We were not prepared for that, just as we are not prepared for any major outage.
Any major disruption of a handful of companies could bring this country to a grinding halt and us to our knees. That, in and of itself, is a major, MAJOR problem. You can well bet that any info-terrorist, or hostile foreign power would have L3, MCI, Sprint, AT&T, etc. in their sites and any major disruption to the web could be brought on just by crippling a few such companies. Such companies are extremely important to our well-being in many, many ways. Finance, big-business, small-business, even our utilities such as water, gas, and power depend on them.
We don't like to think so, but we built this system, a system which our country and the entire world depends on incessantly. And because this system depends on a handful of companies driven by the almighty dollar, by its very nature, it is doomed to disruption, corruption, monopolization, and ultimately, failure.
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