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Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful. - Hexbear
hexbear.netIdk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it's been on my
mind and I want to share it with someone. In the 00's every new thing we heard
about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to
communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we
heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress. That lasted into
the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now
we're well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New
legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock
content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking
for. New ways to force ads. At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing
in the world. Now I don't know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don't look
forward to hearing news about it. It's sad, man. We've lost a lot. The mega
corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that
people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones,
and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an
insatiable desire for money. We're at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20
years of progress, I don't think most of us will like what the next era brings.
The same bootlicker also claimed that the same lord and savior billionaire making sure covid vaccines remained profitably unavailable was not a contradiction of that same "sharing profit" virtue, because... well no explanation was given, just that it wasn't a contradiction.
Normal people: mad about COVID vaccine patents
Me: mad about the anticompetitive effects of Windows 95 on other versions of DOS and also COVID vaccine patents