EPISODE · Jan 28, 2025 · 1H 4M
13. Minitel (Part 2)
from Royal Palace Podcast
History tends to forget the Minitel experiment or dismiss it as a system that suffered from over-centralization, heavy state censorship, and a lack of openness. However, in an era when Google, Amazon, and Microsoft control the vast majority of internet infrastructure, with corporate and state censorship on the rise, might these criticisms reveal more about the “free” internet than they do about 1980s France?
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13. Minitel (Part 2)
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