User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-89.100.49.34-20140911202932/@comment-1038387-20140912071910

The Internet was developed in the United States by American citizens, but inventions aren't really a "nationalist" thing. It's an individual thing. One (or more) person develops something, using the knowledge acquired by multiple scientists and inventors across the world, across history.