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As much as I like to consider myself a pro-freedom, anti-censorship type of person, articles such as this one rarely fail to amuse me. As long as the system of
by dpq 8y ago
As much as I like to consider myself a pro-freedom, anti-censorship type of person, articles such as this one rarely fail to amuse me. As long as the system of payoffs stays unchanged, the end result is inevitably going to be the same, and if the decentralized web does change the system of payoffs, there might be no incentives to motivate development and adoption of such a d-web beyond a small number of technically adept people. How many times have there been calls and widespread memes to abandon Facebook [remember Diaspora?], and yet it's still there.
It's all not doom and gloom, but what society desperately needs is to stop producing/consuming pointless articles such as this one or idiocy like "We should break up Google and Amazon" [Oh yeah? Go ahead and break them up them, I'll watch. Will you be selling tickets?], and to start performing _real_ economic and game-theoretic analysis of possible alternatives.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoGet ready for more of it. All twenty Democrat presidential hopefuls just watched Warren talk about splitting tech companies and are currently looking for someone to hold their beer. It’s going to be a long electional cycle :/ I don’t know about an alternative web, but something will happen with Twitter, Google, Facebook upping their censorship game more and more.
- rchaud 8y agoPoliticians promise all kinds of things in stump speeches that they know they cannot realistically deliver. Remember Bush I's "no new taxes?" Obama's public option healthcare plan? Trump's wall? All gone by the wayside. What you say doesn't matter if you can't guarantee the right number of votes in the legislature.
- chmln 8y ago> I don’t know about an alternative web, but something will happen with Twitter, Google, Facebook upping their censorship game more and more. Why do you think something will happen? All three platforms have a 'pro-leftwing' and 'anti-rightwing' bias, which also aligns with most of the mainstream media. As a result, their censorship is supported by a good majority of the population