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Re:Did the early internet activists blow it? by ethbro on Sunday February 16, 2020 @12:21AM (#22339924)
I was thinking in terms of virality velocity as well.

Using the postal reference, something may have taken a week to transmit to 100 people. Now, it takes 5 seconds.

That's a fundamentally different situation, and it requires different tradeoffs in society.

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Re:Did the early internet activists blow it? by AnthonyMouse on Sunday February 16, 2020 @03:40PM (#22343622)
The telegraph has been transmitting information all over the world at the speed of light for more than a hundred years, so that's not it either.
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