Exploiting the ?Communist Threat?, for the Privatized Internet

Noel Packard ()
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Noel Packard: University of Auckland

No 9311611, Proceedings of Arts & Humanities Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Levine?s Surveillance Valley reports how the Internet was privatized without public debate or resistance but overlooks decades of neoliberal economic and anti-communist purging history that had chilling effects on public resistance to Internet privatization - that history gap is explored here. How did military-industrial-complex contractors, using neoliberal and Communist threat rational, incentivize Internet development, while lessening the possibility of public interference to Internet privatization? Weber?s special-skilled-occupational-status-group-theory is overlaid onto neoliberal economic and military-industrial-complex history to argue occupational-contractor-status-groups, with their monopoly access to early computer technology, fulfilled neoliberal doctrine by creating and protecting private markets for the Internet and exploited Communist threat rational to help clear the privatization path of people who might impede market plans.

Keywords: Internet; neoliberal; DARPA; Communist Threat; Cold War; national security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 H56 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2019-07
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 5th Arts & Humanities Conference, Copenhagen, Jul 2019, pages 59-80

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