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This. I also am old enough to remember when people were upset at the web giants replacing the old decentralized internet- "what will happen if one day they'll s

by Udik 6y ago

This. I also am old enough to remember when people were upset at the web giants replacing the old decentralized internet- "what will happen if one day they'll start censoring stuff?". And now all you hear is people getting mad at internet giants because they don't censor enough.

wruza 6y ago
Internet habits also changed from an active research to eating from the table that someone prepared for you. Even if you do active research now, you inevitably end up on prepared and diversity-mixed pages. Crowd and free write access spoil everything, not platforms themselves. In a sense, the old internet had less free speech, as you couldn't do off-topic and not be fined. >>Some might want "obscene" material gone, others would love to eradicate "fake news" and a few people might still be around that would instantly jump at any chance to purge the internet of blasphemy against their sky-daddy of choice. It worked exactly like that before. It is our nature. We want to believe in different/opposite things and we are fine with chatting on opposite topics without going to do a real harm. That's psychology of escape, like an evening boxing or walking alone makes you calmer at the morning. You cannot make everyone happy in a single overpopulated diverse group, because it is much easier to fall into -isms and blow off the steam at the world instead of doing that at your gym. Free speech in www is basically moot.
chillacy 6y ago
I wonder to what extent it's just new people joining the internet, where late-adopters are more likely to be more risk-averse by nature. US Internet penetration was only 50% in 2000, now up to 78%: https://www.statista.com/statistics/185700/percentage-of-adult-internet-users-in-the-united-states-since-2000/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/185700/percentage-of-adu... In 1995 it was less than 10%.

by Udik 6y ago

wruza 6y ago

Internet habits also changed from an active research to eating from the table that someone prepared for you. Even if you do active research now, you inevitably end up on prepared and diversity-mixed pages. Crowd and free write access spoil everything, not platforms themselves. In a sense, the old internet had less free speech, as you couldn't do off-topic and not be fined. >>Some might want "obscene" material gone, others would love to eradicate "fake news" and a few people might still be around that would instantly jump at any chance to purge the internet of blasphemy against their sky-daddy of choice. It worked exactly like that before. It is our nature. We want to believe in different/opposite things and we are fine with chatting on opposite topics without going to do a real harm. That's psychology of escape, like an evening boxing or walking alone makes you calmer at the morning. You cannot make everyone happy in a single overpopulated diverse group, because it is much easier to fall into -isms and blow off the steam at the world instead of doing that at your gym. Free speech in www is basically moot.

chillacy 6y ago

I wonder to what extent it's just new people joining the internet, where late-adopters are more likely to be more risk-averse by nature. US Internet penetration was only 50% in 2000, now up to 78%: https://www.statista.com/statistics/185700/percentage-of-adult-internet-users-in-the-united-states-since-2000/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/185700/percentage-of-adu... In 1995 it was less than 10%.