> From the moment I discovered the Internet at a young age, it has been a magical place to me. Growing up in a small town, relatively isolated from the larger w

> From the moment I discovered the Internet at a young age, it has been a magical place to me. Growing up in a small town, relatively isolated from the larger world, it was a revelation how much more there was to discover – how many interesting people and ideas the world had to offer. This was a not-unusual story for people active online in the '80s. I wonder how the world-expanding has changed, now that everyone's online. I feel like I only have a partial and rough high-level understanding. Nowadays, for example, every gay kid in every small town knows they're not alone, which is a great advance for humanity. But everyone is also being bombarded, conditioned, tracked, manipulated, and exploited pervasively online. What things can we contemporary techbros do, to keep all the goodness of making online accessible to everyone, but remove much of the current badness? (I mean, after we spend 5 minutes removing various kinds of third-party trackers from sites we control, what's the next thing we can do?)