# Is the Internet a Post Road?

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**Created:** [July 17, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-internet-a-post-road/946714 "2021-07-17T15:14:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-internet-a-post-road/946714/31 "2021-07-24T10:51:26Z")

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And USAF is non-constitutional as airforces are not mentioned there?

About internet and compare to postal world: remember that ordinary email is like postcard, everybody who handles them can read them. Only fully encrypted email is like a letter, where only the recipeant can read it.

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