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Ask HN: Has the Internet not lived up to your expectations?

• doctorshady 11y ago
  To be honest, no. I remember being a lot more optimistic about it ten, fifteen years ago. Most consumers seem more concerned with using it to supplement/replace cable TV then to use it as a source of knowledge or anything. Maybe that's more a consequence of the times than the internet itself, but every day, there's inevitably an article about how some ISP is trying to string people into a walled garden or cap, or some government is using it to create a surveillance state. It's effectively gone from a place where you'd go to get away from the traditional way of doing things to one where at least I feel a little trapped by it.