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Sunde is probably coming at this from a point of complete fatigue. Assuming this is not some PR stunt from him, he sounds like he's pretty broken. > I disagree

Sunde is probably coming at this from a point of complete fatigue. Assuming this is not some PR stunt from him, he sounds like he's pretty broken. > I disagree with the idea that an open internet is gone forever and that we will forever be under the thumb of our capitalist rulers. I don't think latching onto Sunde's socialist rhetoric is the real message here; the greater message is that the larger Internet-using populace gladly supports the majority of the centralization he is targeting (Facebook, Airbnb, et. al.) because it reduces the cognitive load and latency between them and the panem et circenses they're really consuming on the Internet. This whole open/decentralized/wild-west cyberpunk game is unfortunately the vocal minority, and if we want the internet to change, those that feel this way should probably try to come off less like a parody of some brogrammer in (HBO) Silicon Valley or an ancap cypherpunk. (Myself included in this criticism.) Neither side is broadcasting a message that is resonating with the greater population that is not worried about the centralization of their content sources. I'm not sure what the message is, but with some empathy toward that use case, I know the age-old messages we've all been pushing might as well be directed to /dev/null for those that don't live on Hacker News, Reddit, mailing lists, et al. I'm reminded of John Oliver's rhetoric toward Snowden and his rephrasing of mass surveillance as the government taking records of their dick pics.

ArkyBeagle 11y ago
The previously highly-aggregated content of television/radio now seems to have a sort of burnished nostalgic glow. I mean... "Dallas"? Really? Of course it burned out and faded away, but at least it was something. We now have meta-broadcast in the mold of "Deadwood"; some of it is striking. "Manhattan", "Vikings", "Fargo". Only Adult Swim seems to be moving content off the Internet onto cable, and I'm not sure about that frankly. It's not like "The Heart She Holler" has an audience other than people who studied Southern Gothic in college/read Faulkner in earnest. It's brilliant but... We are just talking to ourselves here. All the power struggles matter now, but they won't later. It'll all be absorbed as dead matter for whatever tree grows in this compost.
Joof 11y ago
At this point we need more techies who are willing to go into politics. Before, everything could be solved with technology and nobody really understood how to enforce things. Now everything is becoming centralized and the people in power (politicians and big companies) are dictating the rights we have on the internet. Internet rights are important. The internet is a part of so many of the things that we do in real life that it is inexcusable to continue to treat it differently. Smart phones know where we are and who we talk to; the internet of things may someday take hold and keep track of everything we do and when we do it; AI will be regulating more and more systems. The people who use Facebook and turn a blind eye for the sake of convenient services don't care, but many of us do.

ArkyBeagle 11y ago

The previously highly-aggregated content of television/radio now seems to have a sort of burnished nostalgic glow. I mean... "Dallas"? Really? Of course it burned out and faded away, but at least it was something. We now have meta-broadcast in the mold of "Deadwood"; some of it is striking. "Manhattan", "Vikings", "Fargo". Only Adult Swim seems to be moving content off the Internet onto cable, and I'm not sure about that frankly. It's not like "The Heart She Holler" has an audience other than people who studied Southern Gothic in college/read Faulkner in earnest. It's brilliant but... We are just talking to ourselves here. All the power struggles matter now, but they won't later. It'll all be absorbed as dead matter for whatever tree grows in this compost.

Joof 11y ago

At this point we need more techies who are willing to go into politics. Before, everything could be solved with technology and nobody really understood how to enforce things. Now everything is becoming centralized and the people in power (politicians and big companies) are dictating the rights we have on the internet. Internet rights are important. The internet is a part of so many of the things that we do in real life that it is inexcusable to continue to treat it differently. Smart phones know where we are and who we talk to; the internet of things may someday take hold and keep track of everything we do and when we do it; AI will be regulating more and more systems. The people who use Facebook and turn a blind eye for the sake of convenient services don't care, but many of us do.