News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019). Parent comment

Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by unishark on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:06PM (#25947241)
> 10 or 15 years ago people looked at web 1.0, saw many good communities and valuable conversations and said "we need to protect free speech".

> Today people looks at Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/Reddit, see mismanaged cesspools and declare that we need centralized speech control.

...In other words people are completely taking all the amazing things we have today for granted.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by mcguire on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:09PM (#25947273)
Or perhaps realizing that those amazing things really aren't all that wonderful.

Very few things are an unalloyed good.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Fre... by unishark on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:57AM (#26034686)
Someone views a glass as half empty, I point out it can be viewed as half full.

Your someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet counter is that, no, it is half empty? Thanks for the contribution.

[ Parent | on HN ]