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To be frank tech companies are a second order symptom of fucked up societal attitudes pushing the censorship. The puritan mass market push towards "child frien

To be frank tech companies are a second order symptom of fucked up societal attitudes pushing the censorship. The puritan mass market push towards "child friendly mass market" as a default which leaves no place for the ugliness of reality. They don't care about suffering - they just don't want to see it. It is narcissistic sociopathy as a norm - how dare they run out of a burning building in their underwear! Children might see them! That it is the middle of the night is no concern - they don't want "inappropriate content" in a back alley. They want it gone. The tech companies tend towards doing nothing until the masses of "think of the children" complaints about "objectionable" content. The absence of those masses of people is what I miss the most about the internet not being mainstream. I personally believe what we need is to offend those busybodies as much as possible until they fuck off into their own bubble.

indigochill 8y ago
>The absence of those masses of people is what I miss the most about the internet not being mainstream. I've seen this sentiment before, but I don't get it. Sure, the internet's mainstream and there are parts of it that have a mainstream culture and that's probably not going anywhere in the foreseeable future. But the internet itself has no culture (heh). It's just a network. There are still corners of the internet that have whatever culture you're looking for. And if you can't find it, you can make it. It probably won't make much money or make the news, but the option is there. That said, I agree with the main thrust of your argument that tech companies are just reflecting the mainstream preference to whitewash reality.
- Nasrudith 8y ago
  The sentiment is based on the transformative and displacing effects of the mainstream and "old internet" refers to culture as opposed to the network. I am well aware that niche chasing is the way to achieve it for now. What the sentiment longs for as ideal is for influence to have worked more in the opposite direction. Instead we get advertisers trying to be the tail wagging the dog again when people left their last venture over the blandness they imposed.

indigochill 8y ago

>The absence of those masses of people is what I miss the most about the internet not being mainstream. I've seen this sentiment before, but I don't get it. Sure, the internet's mainstream and there are parts of it that have a mainstream culture and that's probably not going anywhere in the foreseeable future. But the internet itself has no culture (heh). It's just a network. There are still corners of the internet that have whatever culture you're looking for. And if you can't find it, you can make it. It probably won't make much money or make the news, but the option is there. That said, I agree with the main thrust of your argument that tech companies are just reflecting the mainstream preference to whitewash reality.

Nasrudith 8y ago
The sentiment is based on the transformative and displacing effects of the mainstream and "old internet" refers to culture as opposed to the network. I am well aware that niche chasing is the way to achieve it for now. What the sentiment longs for as ideal is for influence to have worked more in the opposite direction. Instead we get advertisers trying to be the tail wagging the dog again when people left their last venture over the blandness they imposed.