The Question and Answer Board

[IH Geek [Dave]]

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Public property:

Property owned by a government. Examples are city halls, public parks, streets, sidewalks, libraries, schools and similar venues.

Private property:

Everything that is not owned by a government.

Public internet:

Websites and network infrastructure owned by government. Usually has a .gov in the domain in the case of websites.

Private internet:

Everything else in the interwebs including ISPs, network backbones, websites and online services.

Now they are trying to say that the public internet is their private property