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Comment by otabdeveloper4

9 hours ago

> The internet's famous "routing around damage"

...is only for Pentagon networks and military stuff. It's not for us normal people. (We get Cloudflare and FAANG bullshit instead.)

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zelon88  9 hours ago

This is actually startlingly true.

Every FAANG company has their own fiber backbone. Why invest the internet that everyone uses when you can invest in your own private internet and then sell that instead?

  • profmonocle  6 hours ago

    It's not like the long-haul fiber not owned by FAANG is a public utility, at least not in most places.

    Traffic that goes over "the Internet" traverses some mix of your ISP's fiber, fiber belonging to some other ISP they have a deal with, then fiber belong to some ISP they have a deal with, etc.

    All those ISPs are being paid to provide service, they can invest in their own networks.