[anthonylevine]

What kind of person sees a claim like "No, not all major breakthroughs were done at private companies. Like the internet, for example" and immediately feels the need to tell them private companies are doing stuff?

Are you not reading the reply chains before commenting? What motivates you to interject with information that is meaningless?

The only thing I can think of is that you've voted for the people who are currently slashing the funding and have to continuously try to convince yourself it's okay.

[philipallstar]

Lots of the internet was and is powered by research from private companies. The internet is not particularly public sector.

[mexicocitinluez]

OP said "almost any major scientific breakthrough of the past century" was done at private companies. Which is objectively not true. They transmitted that message using technology that was created by the government. That's ironic.

Your reply

> Basically all of the internet is powered by software, standards, computers, networks and storage created by companies.

Is meaningless. It's someone jumping out of the woodwork to white knight the private sector. It's weird. It doesn't change what I said or what OP said.

It doesn't make it less ironic to say "all major things were done by private companies" using a technology that wasn't invented by a private company. It's irrelevant.