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I've always wished to live in a world where high end science and humanities research happens on the open internet so that people outside academia (like myself)

I've always wished to live in a world where high end science and humanities research happens on the open internet so that people outside academia (like myself) can participate as a member of an interested audience. With YouTube removing videos about CoVid from people who are actively working/researching the virus (because they disagree with the CDC and WHO guidelines), and FB removing historical artifacts by a Historian because such things must only happen behind paywalled journals that only large universities can afford, I worry that the internet is moving away from being a place where information is freely available. I still think that everyone should host their own blog and have an RSS feed that people can subscribe to and have independent editorial control. But I also want to see YouTube and Facebook succeed as internet companies by enabling regular people like me listen to experts disagree about controversial topics and see how consensus slowly forms at the end of rigorous debate among experts.

oliv__ 5y ago
> But I also want to see YouTube and Facebook succeed as internet companies by enabling regular people like me listen to experts disagree about controversial topics That disappeared a long time ago...
tdeck 5y ago
As someone without a Facebook account: Facebook was never the "open internet". If you want everyone to be able to see something you found, wrote, or created, don't just share it on Facebook.
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ezoe 5y ago
If you think about that old school ideal Internet, you also have to think about other ideal like everyone can start a server. It's not possible anymore. If you relies on VPS, it's no better than Facebook. Sure, as an individual, you can afford a server hardware, but not the network. ISP is as same as Facebook. Also, it's so cheap to DoS the server single person can afford. If you relies on CDN, that's another Facebook.
- mixedCase 5y ago
  I'm not as pessimistic as you are regarding VPSes. There are providers that care about free speech, but you'll almost only hear about them in a negative light because they host content from people with disgusting views. There is also tech like IPFS or even Tor, which provide censor-resistant options.

oliv__ 5y ago

> But I also want to see YouTube and Facebook succeed as internet companies by enabling regular people like me listen to experts disagree about controversial topics That disappeared a long time ago...

tdeck 5y ago

As someone without a Facebook account: Facebook was never the "open internet". If you want everyone to be able to see something you found, wrote, or created, don't just share it on Facebook.

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ezoe 5y ago

If you think about that old school ideal Internet, you also have to think about other ideal like everyone can start a server. It's not possible anymore. If you relies on VPS, it's no better than Facebook. Sure, as an individual, you can afford a server hardware, but not the network. ISP is as same as Facebook. Also, it's so cheap to DoS the server single person can afford. If you relies on CDN, that's another Facebook.

mixedCase 5y ago
I'm not as pessimistic as you are regarding VPSes. There are providers that care about free speech, but you'll almost only hear about them in a negative light because they host content from people with disgusting views. There is also tech like IPFS or even Tor, which provide censor-resistant options.