Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
by ethbr0 on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:38PM
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As a child, I admit I was wholly taken in by digital IP extremists. The danger is real!
They convinced me that information should be free, that it was my right to download and share anything digital, and that the internet was a borderless utopia of knowledge, limited only by our imaginations.
Now, I see the error of my ways and the harm I, and those who thought like me, caused to content creators and distributors.
I understand that the internet is safer, more secure, and better when suckled through the benevolent teat of large corporations, whose wisdom and foresight allows it to be restricted, filtered, and repackaged into a socially beneficial form.
Don't make the same mistakes I did! Trust in the system.
They convinced me that information should be free, that it was my right to download and share anything digital, and that the internet was a borderless utopia of knowledge, limited only by our imaginations.
Now, I see the error of my ways and the harm I, and those who thought like me, caused to content creators and distributors.
I understand that the internet is safer, more secure, and better when suckled through the benevolent teat of large corporations, whose wisdom and foresight allows it to be restricted, filtered, and repackaged into a socially beneficial form.
Don't make the same mistakes I did! Trust in the system.