I want to learn more on how the internet came into being. Why is it structured this way? Since the internet kind of stomps on anyone who has anything useful to say with trolling and memes to make that persons arguments null. How does this tyrannical system lives and grows? I wonder, what is socialists and communists strategy to combat short term memory and short attention span that rising among the new generation? I think we need to address the lack of analysis between the internet and human psychology from a marxist perspective.

  • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    First the Internet was designed to provide battlefield command and control and then it was turned loose on the public and they tried to make it "profitable" selling ads.

    I think the great firewall was a good idea

    • voight [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      This jogged my memory, in between control centers and making money off ads there's been a lot of stuff. I'd never done a lot of research into what the very early internet was like, people told me "scientists mostly used it for sending work to each other".

      But from the beginning there were people like Stewart Brand running invite-only websites for journalists. I really don't have the full story on that. I'm sure I'm missing lots of stuff.

      He looks a lot like a spook to me, maybe this is just how rich early internet pioneers are. Dude ran a fake Indian heritage foundation with his wife, eat your heart out pickle-liz Warren. To this day he inexplicably gets pro-fossil fuel articles published and boosted on the Bad Orange Website (I initially encountered him in the comments and in Wikipedia surrounding such articles or his own page lol). He despises Rachel Carson for trying to give pesticides bad PR.