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People would change the way they use the web, not stop using it.
by jfoster 10y ago
People would change the way they use the web, not stop using it.
- TelmoMenezes 10y agoYes, that is precisely my argument. Make the normal web sufficiently oppressive, and the freedom provided by decentralization becomes so compelling that people switch to it.
- SXX 10y agoDo you seriously expect that in dystopian scenario altenative going to be available? Even if decentralized services going to remain available do you think people will risk using them? Most likely they won't going to do that. This is proved by China and more extreme example of North Korea also available. Or just look at any country with totalitarian regime: they increase regulations really slowly so people "too busy" to think about that, but at some point they simply too scared to do anything.
- TelmoMenezes 10y agoYou have a point. What I imagine is that some underground "resistance" would develop and use such systems, and once the authoritarianism eventually collapses, the mainstream will then be afraid of centralization. Take as an example the Germans' insistence on privacy, to extents that even seem ridiculous to a lot of people (e.g. the right to blur your house in Google maps), and then consider their historical context.
- jessaustin 10y agoChina would seem to prove the opposite: extensive controls are in place, yet many people find ways around those controls.
- toyg 10y agoReportedly teenagers, who are much more aware of networks' downsides by having grown up with them, are trying harder and harder to turn off or at least reduce their network footprint. See for example the rise of ephemeral services like Snapchat, 4chan, pastebin and so on.