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You will find that the people who were on the unsavoury bbs are the people who are against censorship today. Out of the half dozen people I know from that peri
by konjin 6y ago
You will find that the people who were on the unsavoury bbs are the people who are against censorship today.
Out of the half dozen people I know from that period in my life (2000-2006) not one has had a kind thing to say about facebook, google or twitter since 2010. Those firms are the lame dinosaur stuck in a tar pit that we made fun of Microsoft for being in the 00s.
It's the people who called us nerds and made high school hell for us that somehow ended up in hr at tech co and are now setting policy there.
- gfodor 6y agoThat may be a more valid perspective, but I don't think these are homogeneous groups. I will say it's been surprising and disappointing to see people who have been railing against tech company centralized power for years, it turns out their big issue is more when that power is not directed in a direction they like.
- konjin 6y ago> I will say it's been surprising and disappointing to see people who have been railing against tech company centralized power for years, it turns out their big issue is more when that power is not directed in a direction they like. What else can you do? Saying that tech co is wrong today is as much career suicide as saying that the US deserved 9/11 was in 2002. I even had one guy tell me he is going full accelerationist on his main twitter because the http based internet is a dead end and the more unusable it becomes the sooner we will get something better.