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Pete Buttigieg: “The federal government literally invented the Internet.”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 21:11

… it's kind of done in a way that you can tell is designed by the government and it's not pretty. On the other hand, when you talk about capital allocation, The federal government literally invented the Internet. So there's things, there's certain trillion dollar ideas that the private sector just won't do because it doesn't pencil or because of whatever market failure is there. That's where you need government. (21:11–21:14)

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