Friday, 6 July 2018
quote [ The power of the Web wasn’t taken or stolen. We, collectively, by the billions, gave it away with every signed user agreement and intimate moment shared with technology. ]
a little followup to I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it
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steele said @ 4:44pm GMT on 7th Jul
[Score:1 Underrated]
Decentralizing doesn't solve the problem. Nor does projecting bullshit empathy on Mark Zuckerberg. Taking to the streets though? Yeah, maybe. |
hellboy said @ 9:12pm GMT on 6th Jul
What's happening is what I (like a lot of people) was afraid would happen: the existing powers would recognize the potential of the internet/WWW in time to use their money and influence to suborn it and use it as a means of maintaining and increasing control over users, rather than it being the tool to redistribute power more equally, as many (also including me) hoped it would be.
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rylex said @ 2:54am GMT on 7th Jul
TL:dr
They took our net! |
Anonynonymous said @ 2:21pm GMT on 7th Jul
Wait, I thought Al Gore was the one who created it?
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HoZay said @ 3:07pm GMT on 7th Jul
That was the internet, not the WWW.
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