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It's amazing to me how many people on Hacker News, a technical forum full of the most technically capable people in the world, seem to forget that the Internet
by freehunter 7y ago
It's amazing to me how many people on Hacker News, a technical forum full of the most technically capable people in the world, seem to forget that the Internet is still a thing, domain name registrars (and failing that, IP addresses) still exist, and anyone can put almost anything they want on the Internet regardless of their political views.
So many people here seem resigned to this idea that Twitter and Facebook are the only ways to communicate online. I would have thought the most technically capable people in the world would remember that HTML can be served from basically any Internet-accessible computer in the world.
- 50656E6973 7y agoWhat about the Network Effect? What does it matter if anyone can have a say if they don't get heard?
- thatswrong0 7y agoWhat do you mean? The freedom to communicate your ideas is not the same thing as a guarantee to an audience.
- thrwayxyz 7y agoDaily reminder that you can get run off all of those without doing anything illegal.
- freehunter 7y agoHas there ever been a situation where someone lost their IP address and was completely banished from Internet because of their free and legal speech, without committing a crime?
- inimino 7y agoThe comment you're replying to said that most political speech has moved to a few platforms. I haven't forgotten that IP addresses exist, but what has that got to do with my comment? Nobody is preventing you from putting your political musings in a newsletter distributed by carrier pigeon, or setting up a coöperative news telegraph wire, or your own broadsheet printing press. You are just as free as ever to put HTML on a server and air-drop and spray paint your dotted-quad all over the physical world. You are equally free to get a bullhorn and stand in the desert and preach to the prairie dogs, should you be so inclined.