system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Who owns the internet?
gpt
You can own a connection, but not the entity. In much the same way you can say this part of the planet is america's - but you can't say the entire planet is america's (thought that won't stop some people from trying to say it).

The internet is similar, it's not confined to any single space or machine, it's an enormous, transcontinental network of information shooting this way and that.

It can be pruned and it can be grown but as long as there are computers connected to other computers - you have an internet.