Re:Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:13AM
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AOL was the internet for some people (and maybe still is!).
It's just capitalism, put a fence around something, sell access, keep people ignorant of what they're missing.
It's impossible for things to stay good under unrestrained capitalism because there's always some [even very minor] deleterious action that can be exploited for profit (financial or control). Those actions tend to proliferate and cascade.
It's just capitalism, put a fence around something, sell access, keep people ignorant of what they're missing.
It's impossible for things to stay good under unrestrained capitalism because there's always some [even very minor] deleterious action that can be exploited for profit (financial or control). Those actions tend to proliferate and cascade.