Ah, that last paragraph helped explain much of the "how can you know?" drivel. I can safely say I don't start with "your readers'" base knowledge (I mean, I'm familiar with much of it, but I wouldn't say I have knowledge). Well, good luck battling the Illuminati.
As to how I know that the military design things that aren't intended to display warfare-persistence - well, partly common sense, seeing what army engineers build in civilian settings, watching disaster-relief operations in a few places, and having a military (naval) parent who designed things that were not intended to persist but rather to cease to exist, very rapidly.
Ah, that last paragraph helped explain much of the "how can you know?" drivel.
It's called expectation bias and you're full of it, which is sad. I mean I'm sorry for your childhood dramas but comparing the Internet to a civilian setting is even more ridiculous than battling the Illuminati (which is by the way not what I am doing anyway, so again, expectation bias much on your side).
How, exactly, am I "comparing the Internet with a civilian setting"? I listed numerous examples of the military designing things without warfare-persistence as a design goal - bridges in relief operations, administrative buildings in cities, limpet-mines. And "comparing the Internet with a civilian setting" was what you took from that? Honestly, I'm struggling to see how - or why - you would do that unless you were trying to deflect attention away from the issue at hand. Now, what was it about that response to your argument you actually take issue? (And, for bonus points, how might it be affected by your presumption of childhood trauma?)