Heavy-handed web regulations are pushing us toward a dystopian future. Shifting filtering directly to the router level fixes the problem without forcing adults to hand over sensitive ID data.
Some of it was VC money, but quite a bit of it was the exact same thing that happened when the App Store became popular. People were going out of their way to try to create things that would be bought out by larger companies.
I was around in the 2000s when YouTube got bought by Google. I don’t disagree that the Internet used to be a blast, but I do disagree that corporate interests weren’t already fucking it up and going into overdrive by the end of the 90s.
Meh private sector fucking up Internet went into overdrive about 15 years ago.
I would argue that started happening the moment they got online. The dot com crash didn’t happened for nothing.
The dot com crash was idiot VC money trying to open, mymonkeyshit.com.
The internet was a blast in the 90s until about 2015.
Some of it was VC money, but quite a bit of it was the exact same thing that happened when the App Store became popular. People were going out of their way to try to create things that would be bought out by larger companies.
I was around in the 2000s when YouTube got bought by Google. I don’t disagree that the Internet used to be a blast, but I do disagree that corporate interests weren’t already fucking it up and going into overdrive by the end of the 90s.
That’s why we pay politicians to regulate them in a sensible non-for-their-profit manner.
Clipper chip all over again