Who owns the internet? Who do we pay to use it and why?
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No one really owns the internet, it is a whole bunch of individual people and big corporations and everything in between hosting a bunch of content on servers that are just constantly connected to the internet. Or less commonly but people can host stuff from their own home computer if they really want to.
Each government sets its own rules about what the people in their country are allowed to see on the internet, how their internet usage is tracked, how internet companies have to charge and control access, etc.
We pay *internet service providers* who act as gatekeepers to the internet. They installed all the infrastructure, like the cables and servers, that connect your house to their access point so you can go out to the world wide web.
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