In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits.

Now's not that time.

And Republicans.

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

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Tom Woods.

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The Tom Woods Show.

Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 33.

We're talking today about the internet, and specifically I want to get into the question of whether there would have been an internet without the state.

This is one of the objections that is thrown in the faces of libertarians all the time.

Hey, look, the government that you hate so much created the Internet.

What's wrong with you, misanthropes?

So I wanted to try to get to the bottom of this, and to do so, I've invited Richard Bennett to talk to us.

Richard Bennett co-invented Ethernet over Twisted Pair, the Wi-Fi Mac protocol, as well as

miscellaneous network enhancements. He is an expert on internet technology and public policy.

His experience with legislative bodies spans two decades, beginning with expert witness testimony

before multiple committees of the California legislature in the 1990s,

and continuing to recent testimony before Congress on Internet privacy.

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