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Note: misleading title. This is not about the internet, or the World Wide Web, it's about Facebook and other social media networks. The very first sentences see
by teleclimber 8y ago
Note: misleading title. This is not about the internet, or the World Wide Web, it's about Facebook and other social media networks. The very first sentences seems to conflate internet and Facebook:
"Something has gone wrong with the internet. Even Mark Zuckerberg knows it. Testifying before Congress, the Facebook CEO ticked off a list of everything his platform has screwed up"
- dschuetz 8y agoIt's an interview, actually. The important part is below, where "the people who built it" talk about what went wrong. It's about the Internet since the beginning. Instead of taking the actual title, I decided to use the title in the URL which is more accurate.
- teleclimber 8y agoThe people who built it did not build the internet, they built the social platforms and ad systems that run on top of the internet. The internet existed long before these people built what they built.
- dschuetz 8y agoYes, we all know that. But how many users did the early Internet have, and how many now? And who helped it grow? People like those who contemplate in the interview.
- rgbrenner 8y agoFacebook wasn't that early to the internet. When it opened for public access in 2006, there were 1 billion internet users.
- djhworld 8y agoI guess from a mainstream perspective, Facebook _is_ the internet for many people.