When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities.
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:

And less than a month after Dresden, the USAAF firebombed Tokyo in a nighttime raid that is still the single most destructive air attack in history, with only the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki even competitive. There was nothing "tactical" about any of those attacks.

The Americans participated in the bombing of Dresden, including multiple runs blind-bombing through cloud cover, with a similar mix of incendiary bombs to the British. I totally agree it wasn't justified, but let's not pretend the American bombing campaign was special or different.