Comment by jMyles
7 months ago
On sufficiently long time scales, there is only one realistic outcome: the internet will not tolerate censorship and will not abide state control. It is bigger than people and computers; it's an evolutionary force.
7 months ago
On sufficiently long time scales, there is only one realistic outcome: the internet will not tolerate censorship and will not abide state control. It is bigger than people and computers; it's an evolutionary force.
This goes even beyond the delusions that we believed in the 1990s which have been proven embarrassingly naive.
But I wish you were right.
> in the 1990s which have been proven embarrassingly naive.
Proven?! It's been 30 years. That's an almost unfathomably small speck in evolutionary scales.
... and yet it's the entirety of the lifespan of the commercial Internet.
Why would you expect different in the future?
The Internet met human nature, and human nature won. We hoped for better, but we didn't get it.