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I thought Gilmore was referring to the earlier idea that the Internet could survive a nuclear war. https://www.wired.com/story/h-bomb-and-the-internet/ https://
by wmf 2y ago
I thought Gilmore was referring to the earlier idea that the Internet could survive a nuclear war. https://www.wired.com/story/h-bomb-and-the-internet/ https://www.wired.com/story/h-bomb-and-the-internet/
- schoen 2y agoI don't think there would have been a straightforward way to connect that to the effects of censorship.
- ChainOfFools 2y ago"interprets damage as censorship and..." where these terms are being treated as equivalent
- uoaei 2y agoInterpreting one thing as another thing does not imply the inverse. The order in the original quote matters.
- cratermoon 2y agoIn the context of knowing the internet (DARPANet) was designed to be resilient and route around damaged nodes, hearing "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" immediately connects the ideas.