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I live in Australia, which is the poster child for gun bans, and it makes me uneasy too. One of my co-workers is a sports shooter who reloads her own ammunition

by strken 9y ago

I live in Australia, which is the poster child for gun bans, and it makes me uneasy too. One of my co-workers is a sports shooter who reloads her own ammunition for environmental reasons, and she's already been inconvenienced by the YouTube restrictions. I'm not sure why the gun politics of a foreign country (the US) should impact on her ability to perform basic maintenance. Hopefully this wave of censorship will lead to better privacy-respecting tools.

LifeLiverTransp 9y ago
I think what happens, is a sort of renewal cycle of the internet. It centralizes, giving companys controll, giving goverment content controll via the companys - a state of affairs which gives birth to a new encrypted, decentralized form, which sheds the old, silod and walled in internet like dead snakeskin and beginns to get subverted yet again.
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  - LifeLiverTransp 9y ago
    Notice how the ecosystem of parasitic subverters thrives on the company driven siloing and goverment wished for backdoors in monocultured software. The centralization and monolithic architecture is the source of insecurity - an thus its creator of its own downfall and demise. The Centralization is the root-cause of the rampant security issues in recent years.
- ori_b 9y ago
  When has this ever cycled? It's always been a one way slide towards centralization and control.
  - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    AOL was a big one for a long time. For many people, the "AOL Keyword" was how you got places (and what you advertised on TV), not a web URL.
  - DINKDINK 9y ago
    BitTorrent, bitcoin, Chat/forums (AOL->OSS Forums). Everything else had too high development, infrastructure, product demands.
    - imtringued 9y ago
      Videos are static content. The big problem with decentralisation is computation. The blockchain can do this but it's still limited to the processing power of a single "virtual" computer.
  - adventured 9y ago
    For normal consumers... Netscape -> IE monopoly -> explosion of choices Email provided by your employer or ISP -> explosion of choices IBM & Apple computers -> explosion of choices Intel processor monopoly -> ARM computing explosion of choices Kodak, majority of the film market -> explosion of camera choices Tight music label monopolies + radio & store distribution -> explosion of cheap consumer choices for streaming vast amounts of music. No longer do you have to spend $20-$25 in adjusted 2018 dollars to buy an album with two songs you want to hear. ABC, NBC, CBS, limited tightly controlled broadcast platforms with very regulated content -> endless array of media start-ups online, streaming choices, news sources Playboy & similar, nearly your sole porn option for decades, highly restricted distribution -> seemingly infinite porn online from thousands of large sites Information broadly, from limited, tightly controlled research options, difficult to access (if you can at all depending on your location) -> explosion of research options online, at a click, practically at zero cost Limited publishing options, from almost nothing for the common person -> dozens of easy, inexpensive ways to publish text/audio/video and reach an audience. For $5 per month I can easily serve up video on my own site, host my own blog, post my own music, whatever.

by strken 9y ago

LifeLiverTransp 9y ago

I think what happens, is a sort of renewal cycle of the internet. It centralizes, giving companys controll, giving goverment content controll via the companys - a state of affairs which gives birth to a new encrypted, decentralized form, which sheds the old, silod and walled in internet like dead snakeskin and beginns to get subverted yet again.

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- LifeLiverTransp 9y ago
  Notice how the ecosystem of parasitic subverters thrives on the company driven siloing and goverment wished for backdoors in monocultured software. The centralization and monolithic architecture is the source of insecurity - an thus its creator of its own downfall and demise. The Centralization is the root-cause of the rampant security issues in recent years.
ori_b 9y ago
When has this ever cycled? It's always been a one way slide towards centralization and control.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  AOL was a big one for a long time. For many people, the "AOL Keyword" was how you got places (and what you advertised on TV), not a web URL.
- DINKDINK 9y ago
  BitTorrent, bitcoin, Chat/forums (AOL->OSS Forums). Everything else had too high development, infrastructure, product demands.
  - imtringued 9y ago
    Videos are static content. The big problem with decentralisation is computation. The blockchain can do this but it's still limited to the processing power of a single "virtual" computer.
- adventured 9y ago
  For normal consumers... Netscape -> IE monopoly -> explosion of choices Email provided by your employer or ISP -> explosion of choices IBM & Apple computers -> explosion of choices Intel processor monopoly -> ARM computing explosion of choices Kodak, majority of the film market -> explosion of camera choices Tight music label monopolies + radio & store distribution -> explosion of cheap consumer choices for streaming vast amounts of music. No longer do you have to spend $20-$25 in adjusted 2018 dollars to buy an album with two songs you want to hear. ABC, NBC, CBS, limited tightly controlled broadcast platforms with very regulated content -> endless array of media start-ups online, streaming choices, news sources Playboy & similar, nearly your sole porn option for decades, highly restricted distribution -> seemingly infinite porn online from thousands of large sites Information broadly, from limited, tightly controlled research options, difficult to access (if you can at all depending on your location) -> explosion of research options online, at a click, practically at zero cost Limited publishing options, from almost nothing for the common person -> dozens of easy, inexpensive ways to publish text/audio/video and reach an audience. For $5 per month I can easily serve up video on my own site, host my own blog, post my own music, whatever.