• @Leafeytea@beehaw.org
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    21 year ago

    Agree. I also feel like the monetization behind use of Google tools, user information, etc just further complicates it.

    I think back on when the internet was first getting started and how everyone was so excited by the prospect of have an essentially “living library” at their fingertips, full of potential to share information and learn in what was perceived by many to be a more open source type model — initially. It didn’t take long to see it succumb to all the same practices that have plagued free exchange of ideas in the real world since forever.

    Add to this the stand by the “free press” of the world, which is no longer free, bent as they are with guarding information access behind paywalls since they continue to decry loss of paper readership and revenue from it as the reason for doing this; that may be true in part but it’s only a fraction of the issues at stake.

    • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊
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      11 year ago

      I remember using the internet before smartphones were ubiquitous. At the time, I was thinking that we would be entering a period of unprecedented enlightenment with all the easy access to all the information a person could want. Lol. Lmao.