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> Never before in history has a small cabal of companies welded such power over what we can say Not really. Like many others I was born without Internet and n
by africanboy 6y ago
> Never before in history has a small cabal of companies welded such power over what we can say
Not really.
Like many others I was born without Internet and never before in history so many people said so many things, multiple times a day, from anywhere they are, to a potentially global audience, paying nothing
- inglor_cz 6y agoThat is the other side of the same coin. If you are a free user, you are treated as a product.
- africanboy 6y agoPremise: I agree that letting public speak happen on private channels handled by some of the largest global corporations in history is dangerous, but in this case AWS is not a free service, it's paid and not really cheap.
- nucleardog 6y agoYeah this whole sentiment kinda strikes me as nonsense. Never before in history has each individual had the ability to broadcast their thoughts so widely so easily. Twitter/Facebook/AWS/etc can all refuse to do business with you. You can still throw an old computer in your basement and plug it into the internet and make your thoughts accessible to the entire world. Domain name registrar or TLD banned you too? Great, pick another registrar. Pick another TLD. Pick another country with different laws. You can do it all from the country you currently inhabit and the comfort of your office chair. You can make your site accessible via IP address or virtually unblockable via Tor. Even if you're violating the laws and norms of the country you inhabit, you can host this in a way that's virtually untraceable back to you with little effort. How exactly did one accomplish that in 1930? 1830? 1730? 1630? What ability did a peasant in 830AD have to broadcast their thoughts across the entire world that we lack today?