[Eugene Volokh] "It's Not Called the Net of a Million Lies for Nothing"

Rereading a 1995 article of mine reminded me of the late Vernor Vinge's then-recent A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) (one of my favorite science fiction books). Referring to an interstellar communications network seemingly modeled on the 1992 Internet, the characters say, like it's a proverb: "It's not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing."

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