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I view this argument similarly to people who say socialism works in theory -- but can't produce a working historical example. GMO has always equalled abusive m

I view this argument similarly to people who say socialism works in theory -- but can't produce a working historical example. GMO has always equalled abusive monopoly (at least at any scale that matters) -- so why the impulse to defend the underlying technology when the historical examples only show its abuse? I largely agree with the point you are making, but personally can't take the step to believe that somehow the technology can better the world without the enormously negative baggage.

ev1 6y ago
From an objective POV you've come in here with a loaded question and a lot of emotionally charged complaints and no citations, and people in the comments have also proven you wrong on some points with citations. I have inherent trust of websockets and webrtc because I see the usefulness of it and it's great when you need it, I have inherent distrust of 90% of the people that use it because it's heavily used for abuse, port scanning, attacks on clients, fingerprinting and privacy violations (used to expose your LAN subnet, and then port scan it from your browser behind your firewall), adblock bypassing (streaming ads as blob data through a websocket has become commonplace). They do not need to be connected.