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**** Strictly speaking, [=VeriSign=] doesn't have monopoly control of the root nameservers so even if they went rogue, resolvers can still use the rest of the 13, and there are plenty of top-level domains outside [=VeriSign=] control. Leaving the ecosystem altogether with alternative root nameservers is harder in practice because certificate authorities preloaded in mainstream browsers can only sign certificates for ICANN-approved top-level domains. Manually installing other CA means this less trusted CA can also sign certificates for any domain, including sensitive sites like financial or healthcare, opening up the risk of snooping and spoofing.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. This applies not only to public-facing services, but core infrastructure as well, as a growing share of Internet sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), outages or issues of which have caused large swaths of the Internet to stop working. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. This applies not only to public-facing services, services but core infrastructure as well, as a growing share of Internet sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and outages or issues of which have caused large swaths of the Internet to stop working. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for the exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.entities.
** The problem with private companies' domination is strictly speaking their deplatforming of users counts as their own free speech, like a homeowner removing a protester camping on their lawn. A non-nuanced ruling against deplatforming would mean all sites can be spammed without allowing the operator to remove them, which disincentivizes websites from providing a space for user-generated content.
** The problem with private companies' domination is strictly speaking their deplatforming of users counts as their own free speech, like a homeowner removing a protester camping on their lawn. A non-nuanced ruling against deplatforming would mean all sites can be spammed without allowing the operator to remove them, which disincentivizes websites from providing a space for user-generated content.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'': Internet Phone Corporation ("These guys don't use the Net. They own the Net." With an elaboration that one of the most powerful paramilitary security corporations around ''still'' pays its bills to Internet on time. "You don't even want to guess what Internet can throw at you. It even scares Saburo Arasaka.")
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'': Internet Phone Corporation Corporation. ("These guys don't use the Net. They own the Net." With an elaboration that one of the most powerful paramilitary security corporations around ''still'' pays its bills to Internet on time. "You don't even want to guess what Internet can throw at you. It even scares Saburo Arasaka.")
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** As alluded to above, [[http://www.verisign.com/ VeriSign]] operates 2 of the 13 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver root nameservers]], including the A nameserver, and (after acquiring and spinning off Network Solutions) operates the only ''registry'' of .com, .net, and .name addresses for the various ''registrars''.
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** As alluded to above, [[http://www.verisign.com/ VeriSign]] operates 2 of the 13 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver root nameservers]], nameservers,]] including the A nameserver, and (after acquiring and spinning off Network Solutions) operates the only ''registry'' of .com, .net, and .name addresses for the various ''registrars''.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. A growing share of Internet sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), outages or issues of which have caused large swaths of the Internet to stop working. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. A This applies not only to public-facing services, but core infrastructure as well, as a growing share of Internet sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), outages or issues of which have caused large swaths of the Internet to stop working. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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Instead of the decentralized Internet we are used to, the network all the characters interact with is owned and/or controlled by a single organization. This organization can be a powerful antagonist if the protagonists are hackers or are trying to uncover some secret it wants to keep hidden. Often, the InternetIncorporated is the creator of the AppliedPhlebotinum which powers the {{Cyberspace}} the characters use -- or is the one who stole it from its creators.
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Instead of the decentralized Internet we are used to, the network all the characters interact with is owned and/or controlled by a single organization. This organization can be a powerful antagonist if the protagonists are hackers or are trying to uncover some secret it wants to keep hidden. Often, the InternetIncorporated Internet Incorporated is the creator of the AppliedPhlebotinum which powers the {{Cyberspace}} the characters use -- or is the one who stole it from its creators.
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* In ''WebVideo/DoorMonster'', Kyle is [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext crawling through the vents at Youtube]] when he runs into a wall telling him that the content is blocked in his country. He immediately objects that he lives in America, they own the internet! Rachel points out that things don't really work like that.
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* Op Net from the ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'' TabletopRPG is the system that esentially replaced the internet (due to better AppliedPhlebotinum) and requires its users to be licensed.
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* Op Net from the ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'' TabletopRPG is the system that esentially essentially replaced the internet (due to better AppliedPhlebotinum) and requires its users to be licensed.
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* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:the AncientConspiracy made a 'bottleneck' in the internet and all digital communications called the Aquinas Hub: All information that flows on internet, phone lines, satelites, anything digital, passes through that hub and can be filtered and monitored by whoever's in control of it. The end of the game is devoted to preventing the BigBad from joining with an AI that has been granted control over this system, which would effectively make him God of the Internet]].
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* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:the AncientConspiracy made a 'bottleneck' in the internet and all digital communications called the Aquinas Hub: All information that flows on internet, phone lines, satelites, satellites, anything digital, passes through that hub and can be filtered and monitored by whoever's in control of it. The end of the game is devoted to preventing the BigBad from joining with an AI that has been granted control over this system, which would effectively make him God of the Internet]].
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' universe, the Internet is a giant Linksys router in a bunker somewhere. No one even knows how it works, so when the Internet goes down they're forced to try increasingly desparate methods ("Try communicating with it musically!"). The solution, of course, is to turn it off and on again.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' universe, the Internet is a giant Linksys router in a bunker somewhere. No one even knows how it works, so when the Internet goes down they're forced to try increasingly desparate desperate methods ("Try communicating with it musically!"). The solution, of course, is to turn it off and on again.
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* There was talk in the late-2000s about allowing the President of the United States to have an "Internet kill switch" to control the use of Internet in the times of crisis, potentially capable of cutting off the connections from entire continents. It went nowhere and was quietly dropped. It's rather doubtful that such a thing could be implemented at all, given that at best only the US would be cut off.
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* There was talk in the late-2000s about allowing the President of the United States UsefulNotes/UnitedStates to have an "Internet kill switch" to control the use of Internet in the times of crisis, potentially capable of cutting off the connections from entire continents. It went nowhere and was quietly dropped. It's rather doubtful that such a thing could be implemented at all, given that at best only the US would be cut off.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. A growing share of Internet sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), outages or issues of which have caused large swaths of the Internet not working. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. A growing share of Internet sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), outages or issues of which have caused large swaths of the Internet not to stop working. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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Note that this isn't technically impossible for fiction set in an alternate universe, but in RealLife, it's not true.
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Note that this isn't technically impossible for fiction set in an alternate universe, but in RealLife, it's not true.
true. Although, the increasing corporate consolidation of Internet services and infrastructure during TheNewTens and beyond have made this closer to being TruthInTelevision.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. A growing share of Internet sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), outages or issues of which have to large swaths of the Internet not working. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. A growing share of Internet sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), outages or issues of which have to caused large swaths of the Internet not working. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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* As more and more Internet sites and services move from hosting on their own servers to using cloud-based hosting, said cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) move closer to being this. Problems or outages with these services are capable of taking down good portions of the Internet.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. A growing share of Internet sites are hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), outages or issues of which have to large swaths of the Internet not working. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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* ''Anime/DennouCoil'': Megamass owns the AugmentedReality system overlying the town of Daikoku. This is justified since it's a local system restricted to that town only, with the company having chosen (and presumably been permitted to) use the town as a prototype testing ground: They control TheMetaverse, but not all the information said Metaverse connects to.
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* ''Anime/DennouCoil'': ''Anime/DenNohCoil'': Megamass owns the AugmentedReality system overlying the town of Daikoku. This is justified since it's a local system restricted to that town only, with the company having chosen (and presumably been permitted to) use the town as a prototype testing ground: They control TheMetaverse, but not all the information said Metaverse connects to.
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* Late in TheNewTens, several companies, or sometimes just "Silicon Valley" as a whole, started to become seen as this due to their near-monopolies of common Web functionality. Google's search engine is so dominant it has become a generic term for Web searches, not to mention the numerous other services they provide or have acquired. Facebook and Twitter basically ''are'' social media, aside from more specialized services like [=LinkedIn=] or Nextdoor. This led to several accusations of censorship, [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee government hearings]], and interesting Constitutional questions, as despite being private companies they provide a generally public forum for exercise of speech by both private citizens and government entities.
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* ''Anime/{{Summerwars}}'': Oz servers connect everyone and everything as long as it is connected to the internet; Everything is connected to the internet.
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* ''Anime/{{Summerwars}}'': ''Anime/SummerWars'': Oz servers connect everyone and everything as long as it is connected to the internet; Everything is connected to the internet.
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* As more and more Internet sites and services move from hosting on their own servers to using cloud-based hosting, said cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) move closer to being this. Problems or outages with these services capable of taking down good portions of the Internet.
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* As more and more Internet sites and services move from hosting on their own servers to using cloud-based hosting, said cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) move closer to being this. Problems or outages with these services are capable of taking down good portions of the Internet.
