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The web is a good platform for mass global surveillance and control. If that still counts as "pretty damn cool", then yeah, you got me!

• RobertRoberts 9y ago
  "Gotcha" means "I understand you", its not an accusation or a condemnation. Technology is not a moral issue, how people use it is. You seem to be confusing the two.
  • dragonwriter 9y ago
    > "Gotcha" means "I understand you", its not an accusation or a condemnation. It can also mean, roughly, «j’accuse»—or perhaps, “I have just proven the accusation against you”—so it can be ambiguous when context doesn’t make the intent clear.
    • RobertRoberts 9y ago
      Maybe to a non native english speaker the context could be misconstrued.
  • jstewartmobile 9y ago
    So stating that modern web technologies were very badly done is moralizing? This isn't physics or chemistry. We're talking about webshit here. Perhaps HTML/CSS back in the CERN days could be counted as technology. The rest of it--from the curly braces in JavaScript down to the --webkit/--moz prefixes in CSS--is pure politics! Politically speaking, strict top-down control is typically not so great. With the IPv4+NAT+Client/Server model that we have, along with the browser standards and software being dominated by Google and Apple, strict top-down control is what we have.
    • RobertRoberts 9y ago
      Are you upset the technology isn't better? I am speaking from the end user perspective as well a developer. Maybe this is all second language context confusion.