Internet Infrastructure
Imagine a hollow planet. It has a very limited usable surface area, but has huge spaces underground. Anyone can build as much as they want underground, but to connect with others who aren’t part of your underground complex, you need to build on the surface, which has very few usable plots of land. Imagine if one central entity controlled both the allocation of surface land and the maps that told you how to get from one plot of land to another. Wouldn’t you want the central entity to be as democratic and free of attachment to any particular nation, ideology, interest group, corporation, or ethnic group as possible? Surface area represents IP addresses and maps represent domains.
That’s the Internet for you.
