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I was just thinking about that earlier... The internet used to be so free and open and now, when people realized they could squeeze even more money out of it,
by dkonofalski 11y ago
I was just thinking about that earlier... The internet used to be so free and open and now, when people realized they could squeeze even more money out of it, it's now become this sanitized, over-controlled network instead of the "Library of Alexandria" that it used to be. :(
- atmosx 11y agoI understand what you're trying to say, but you are stretching this a little too much. Netflix is not an example of open internet - wikipedia is - and sure as hell is nothing like the Library of Alexandria!!!
- freshhawk 11y agoIt's a bit of a stretch ... but now that it's mentioned I bet that the library of Alexandia did have a hell of a lot of folk tales and fiction from different cultures.
- dkonofalski 11y agoI wasn't specifically mentioning Netflix as the bastion of openness. I was just commenting how something like YouTube, for example, is a lot less useful now that there's tons of money to be made from it. How many times have you read an article or gone to a link where the video is now missing because it was taken down due to some kind of weird request. Twitter was awesome until everyone decided to start using it as a promotional tool instead of a social platform. That was more what I was going after...