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Who owns undersea cables?
Nearly all global internet traffic travels through massive fibre optic cables resting on the ocean floor, managed not by governments but by tech giants like Google and Meta. As platforms fight automated content like AI slop, the physical infrastructure carrying this digital data becomes immensely valuable, relying on deep sea maintenance ships to keep the web connected.
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