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Having the internet available at all times was never the problem.
Letting for-profit corporations and other real world supervillains control it and how we use it was and is.
Sure, the lack of oversight of the early internet meant that some predators got too much leeway. Still better than the Epstein class being in CHARGE of everything for everyone.
TL;DR: the internet is not the problem. Billionaires, their corporations, their lawyers, and their pet politicians are.
Agreed, but this phenomenon is as natural as wolves hunting deer. Any time you see a new invention like the web, you see a bunch of ~~vultures~~ businessmen swoop in and try to take it control over it as you mentioned.
Capitalism is definitely the problem, but more generally, it's the sense of creating incentives of some kind (in this case, absurd profits) without asking ourselves whether these incentives are preserving our social values. And if they are not preserving our social values, then they need to be corrected until they do, hence the importance of regulations.
As a society, we've lost sight of this fact, and it's our generation's defining responsibility to remind the world about it.
Agreed, except the part at the beginning where you (probably unintentionally and/or me being overly literal) argue that the capitalist abuse we need to regulate away is equivalent to basic and mutually beneficial natural predator/prey relationships 😉
Wait, you are saying billionaires and shitty politicians where the whole problem the whole time? Fuck, call me surpised
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