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iโm thinking maybe i should direct some of my mutuals on twitter to my account here on spacehey in case twitter goes bankrupt and gets shutdown.
i heard twitter is struggling to pull together ad revenue for enough profit and that that youtube is struggling to do the same. i read on wikipedia that myspace also met that same challenge before its decline. also that rupert murdoch struggled to get his fill of inflicting his grisly conservative media on myspace users.
i think this is becoming like a paradigm shift for the internet. if the internet canโt be as profitable as corporate entities projected, then ispโs would also struggle, because they turn profits from selling user metadata to corporations for companies trying to use online advertising targeted at specific users. they do that because they struggle to raise profit margins otherwise. this may spell doom for the internet as we know it unless it becomes managed by regular communities for their actual needs.
either way, the internet may end up becoming a desert compared to what itย
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Red Monaca
That problem wouldn't exist if the development of the Internet wasn't hugely driven by profit and greed. A much better life for the Internet (and to those who use it) awaits it if the governments of the world recognized the Internet as a public infrastructure essential to the day-to-day life of the people and nationalized it (much like France's Minitel).
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Shut the fuck up, libertarian, for your input has zero utility.
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It seems that you possess a superstitious, naive view of "government," one that sees it as an entity external to the actions of individuals and harboring an agenda that is contrary to the interests of the people. (In short, the kind of view who only read or heard of Orwell's 1984; a shitty book from a shitty author, for the record.) For someone holding that view, an orderly dialogue that involves nuance and rigor is impossible.
Besides, for someone with a profile picture that promotes anti-vax narratives, you're too stereotypical. Read more, dunce.
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The collusion of American social media companies and American government agencies are well-documented before this so-called expose you're gesturing to. Scholars such as Bernard Harcourt and others working in critical media studies discovered this a long time ago (since Snowden, at least); this is old news, so there is no shred of surprise in me. This situation is enabled by the special character of your American government.
If you hadn't noticed, my pointing out the "American-ness" of this whole thing refers to the narrow-mindedness of your perspective, which lends further evidence to the limited utility of your commentary.
I, meanwhile, am speaking from the general and generalizable perspective afforded to me by study of philosophy. You speak from the empirical perspective of certain governments, while I speak from the philosophical concept of government as a necessary foundation of societies (or "necessary evil", to entertain your perspective).
Anyway, your commentary on communism isn't well-informed, and thus there is no need to regard your commentary on that matter to be substantial enough to merit discussion.
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You also lack reading comprehension skills. I will no longer entertain this dunce.
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GRIFFEN
do it! it will make me more powerful then ever before
Barney Haywood
We can only hope...
The internet was so much better 20 years ago.
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