Re:We need to reclaim our attention
by Apocryphon on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:16AM
(#29769957)
Regardless if the solution is government intervention, it seems rather funny to say the modern internet is a place that all entrants can play freely. It’s changed quite a bit since when The Diamond Age was first written.
We can play freely, invent new solutions and approaches without having the government test their safety, without having to get special approval by anybody.
I am aware of the bias of large companies that stops certain people from building, which is why I wrote play.
Re:We need to reclaim our attention
by Apocryphon on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:35AM
(#29770153)
The antitrust left says large companies prevent people from building freely, but doesn’t the free speech right also claim that large companies are preventing from playing- or rather, speaking- freely?
Seems like different activities are falling under corporate purview.
And yet we have worn masks for months at least. If the price of a free internet is the equivalent of wearing a gasmask then I would rather do that, at least until we we have the equivalent of the nano-robot immunesystem from the Diamond Age.
If we let the government make the rules here we will lose the last place where we can play freely, and will almost certainly not solve the problem we wanted to be solved.