Re:That's no misquote. Here's your context (Score 1)

I grant that Gore, and hundreds of other politicians, voted for funding and new taxes for the Internet. But that does not mean he took the initiative in creating the Internet. Even when Al Gore tried to take credit for some of the funding for when ARPANET transitioned to NSFNET, he was still exaggerating. Yes, he recognized a good thing when he saw it. But, he was not involved in the early funding of ARPAnet, the initial NSFNET, or even the initial effort to further increase funding for NSFNET. He merely became a government cheerleader of a prior movement that had little opposition. It was the strong pressure within the Reagan Administration to privatize government operational activities that lead to the privatization of the Internet. Not only is it fair to lampoon Gore for claiming to have created the Internet, it's accurate. If there are any questions, ask Al Gore, who admitted that it was mistake to have claimed to have created the Internet.

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