> I also don't see these scams as "our industry". I'm not in bitcoin and NFTs. This is old fashioned scammers moving to the new medium that we created. It's not

> I also don't see these scams as "our industry". I'm not in bitcoin and NFTs. This is old fashioned scammers moving to the new medium that we created. It's not us. It doesn't look like us, and I doubt anyone would mistake it for us, but it might be something we enabled. We did. I know I wrestle fairly regularly with my complicity in the modern state of affairs, and I'm (by objective standards) one of the least culpable. I think our biggest mistakes were being too welcoming (so much of the early Web's optimism came from outcasts finding social support for the first time that we defaulted to no social protections) and being too passive. Too many of us were willing to sit on our hands because surely somebody would say something eventually, right? And for a lot of nerds, the social acceptance being offered overrode any of their other concerns.