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So you'd like for the web to be put back in the box and replaced with an AOL Walled Garden of wonder? Freedom can indeed be dangerous, but I'd rather be free to
by dhh 17y ago
So you'd like for the web to be put back in the box and replaced with an AOL Walled Garden of wonder? Freedom can indeed be dangerous, but I'd rather be free to hurt myself than smothered to dead by paternalism.
- clawrencewenham 17y agoThe existence of a restricted marketplace doesn't mean the greater internet must become just like it, as if through some kind of relative application of logic. The internet--and the real world in general--can host a million restricted marketplaces, each designed for specific interests--and still be free in general. Your reductio ad absurdum is suggesting that the presence of a gated community in the Hamptons means that every neighborhood ought to be gated.
- glhaynes 17y agoThe post you're replying to specifically said that it "worked for the web". Nobody's trying to take away the open web.