With so many (mainstream) eyes on the public web these days this was bound to happen. The wild west of the (pre) 200x's may be coming to an end but stuff will

With so many (mainstream) eyes on the public web these days this was bound to happen. The wild west of the (pre) 200x's may be coming to an end but stuff will prevail in darknet and private archives or outside western jurisdictions, and continue to spread from there. (It's easy to forget the non-English internet exists too!) Alternatively we might end up with a more or less mild variant of a "web in chains" (analogous to https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201014-totalitarian-world-in-chains-artificial-intelligence https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201014-totalitarian-wor...), that's characterized by a highly siloed and prefiltered/fabricated flow of information. Powerful (gov + big tech) forces push this way for some time now; OTOH I believe the internet remains a difficult beast to tame as long as control doesn't reach China levels. Also, archive shit, because the internet does forget.