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It's probably like when the first cellphone inventors imagined the freedom and productivity that portability would offer humanity. And didn't realize that a si
by supernova87a 6y ago
It's probably like when the first cellphone inventors imagined the freedom and productivity that portability would offer humanity. And didn't realize that a sizeable portion of the eventual effort would turn into serving up cute cat videos and trying to prevent people from yelling at each other based on fake news.
- bcaa7f3a8bbc 6y ago> would turn into serving up cute cat videos Cute cats, per se, is not the problem. Did you know the "Cute cat theory of digital activism" [0]? Literally, the first online cat meme posters imagined the freedom and productivity that cats would offer to digital liberty. > trying to prevent people from yelling at each other based on fake news This turns out to be a much bigger problem that couldn't be solved using cat memes. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_activism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_act...