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Capitalist interests prefer less competition, the end goal is monopoly. People are trying to raise the prices of .org domains too, so I feel like a hammer is ab
by rhizome 7y ago
Capitalist interests prefer less competition, the end goal is monopoly. People are trying to raise the prices of .org domains too, so I feel like a hammer is about to fall as far as the practical level of involvement and presence on the internet goes for individuals the world over. Keep an eye on the canary in the coal mine, or even deploy several of them.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoSad, but also promising. Our WWW was only V1 of the people’s internet. There will surely be another, more radical in its decentralization. I love the WWW, but I don’t mind if Capital will take it. They’ve already ruined much of it... the ads, the surveillance, SquareSpace’s cookie cutter stores, ES6, Webpack, etc. Erasing everything that was good about the old days. The old will rise again anew.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They lead to generic ideological flamewars, which are all the same. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671771 and marked it off-topic.