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Your answer not true. In fact, the "Wild West" is still in fact a reality. 1. Land damage as in the largest public lands system in the world? 2. Violence again
by macdaknife 5y ago
Your answer not true. In fact, the "Wild West" is still in fact a reality.
1. Land damage as in the largest public lands system in the world?
2. Violence against women who were among the first in the world given the right to vote?
3. Violence against people that were plenty violent?
4. Cowboys spoke many languages. Your point is what?
5. Chicago is the "Wild West", huh?
6. Immigration is good, depending.
Leave the internet out of your politics, please.
- aaplok 5y ago> Leave the internet out of your politics, please. Your comment would have a lot more value without this cheap attack. The article and all the comments are about the politics of the internet. OP has the right to express their opinion, however wrong they might feel to you.
- ggm 5y agoThe wild west is a really bad metaphor for internet governance at any time. Firstly by sheer weight of numbers it's China and India who carry the users. Secondly it never had a deregulated state, ever, since before ARPAnet telecommunications were fully regulated state or post monopolised regulated by the outcomes of the RBOC lawsuits. This "we need more wild west" is a fantasy. It ignores pretty much all current governance and community consensus processes everywhere. Not even John Perry Barlow believed his own quote applied to all things all the time. The IETF is not the wild west. IANA is not the wild west. BGP speaking is not the wild west.
- ggm 5y agoWhy do you think the cows existed? Chicago is where the wild west cows wound up. Cowboys existed because barons of beef on the hoof wanted cheap Mexican (Spanish speaking) vaccero labour to move cattle, trampling down sheep and other farming fences, to exploit prairie grasses without paying land damage costs, to ship meat to Chicago to feed the exploding eastern state population. Cowboy culture and wild West was exploitative bullshit, both literally and figuratively. What was happening was a fight between expansion for cows, other farming, and the sweep westward. It lasted 30 years before it was legalised into normality. Dodge city cowboys are a myth based on thin facts and nothing about the wild west is good regarding internet governance
- Eelongate 5y ago> Dodge city cowboys are a myth based on thin facts and nothing about the wild west is good regarding internet governance Nothing about the real wild west as you describe it has anything to do with the internet. Where are the analogous internet cows or commercial exploitation of internet prairies, or sweeps westward? This is all nonsensical. The literal reality of the wild west has nothing to do with regulating "trolls" (criticism of politicians) online.