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> The government, soapboxes, homes and places of business that are happy to have them. This made a lot of sense when I was a kid. Since that time, communicatio
by arkades 8y ago
> The government, soapboxes, homes and places of business that are happy to have them.
This made a lot of sense when I was a kid. Since that time, communication has become incredibly centralized - whether it’s the platform (eg, YT), or the infrastructure to keep it running (eg, Cloudflare.)
Today, if one or two private enterprises decide they want to eliminate your voice, you’re effectively barred from the public square. You can’t roll your own cloud flare.
When private resources so entirely consume our public interactions, the old stand-by of “well, private companies can do what they want...” seems to engage in a form of category error. It may be a private organization, but it’s dominating a public good.
- aeternus 8y agoI don't think this is anywhere near true. Even without the largest 100 internet companies, it is still orders of magnitude easier to get a message out to a large audience than it has been at any other time throughout history. You don't need a fancy Cloudflare proxy to get a message out there. A static site is easy to host and there are thousands of sites/services to choose from. You can still stand on a soapbox, you can post a link on a wide variety of message boards, write an opinion piece for a newspaper, etc.