>Between the two opposing forces are the non-technical masses. These are the online serfs who are completely unaware and will never become aware that their free

>Between the two opposing forces are the non-technical masses. These are the online serfs who are completely unaware and will never become aware that their freedom... I actually agree with a the jist of this article, but this kind of attitude is inexpensive, and part of why this point of view has lost. The open society ideals of the early web were really important. We failed miserably at framing them adequately for public consumption. I don't think it's because "MOPs too stupid." I think we preferred our nerdy, esoteric, hairs splitting glossary of terms to a well framed lexicon that could serve as a basis for public understanding. The best we gave them was net neutrality... and we let the economists explain their own stupid version of it to politicians. Take all the social media problems atm... Politicians, regardless of their country, ideology or whatnot, almost all have completely stupid ideas in this space. There was an article on here recently: "protocols not platforms." It's as true about GPCs as it is about social media. Most HN readers can probably guess the content by the title. It's a vocabulary that badly needs to be in the general discourse, and we need to stop sucking at making it into a simple usable vocabulary.