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I always joked with my friend that if the internet was created today, it would be a walled garden. Jokes on me cause that's happening anyways.

• pixl97 3y ago
  Maybe the joke was always on us techies thinking that the wild west internet could survive in this world? I mean the internet at first got away being what it was, because it was small, and because it didn't affect outside of the internet that much. But now that the net is big, and connected to 'real things' that suddenly being a degree of separation from the "Genocide power hour forum" is actually quite unpleasant and has many risks. Businesses will gladly move to some walled garden to avoid this, they don't care about freedom, they care about profit. And while your aunt and uncle say they care about freedom, they mean "Freedom to be exactly like them and any other degenerates get nailed to a cross". Your average voter will get tired of the crime and harassment online will vote in the next authoritarian that says they have an simple easy solution for the internet problem. Us techies will say "but the authoritarian is wrong, this isn't simple or easy". The authoritarian knowing how propaganda works will tell the lie twice as big and twice as often and win the next election.
  • JohnFen 3y ago
    > Businesses will gladly move to some walled garden to avoid this I support this entirely. One of the largest reasons why the internet is getting much worse with time is that businesses want to use it. Getting them off the open internet would eliminate a fair amount of nastiness and might return some of what we've lost.