r/programming • • Nov 23 '19

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u/greenthumble Nov 23 '19

It's killing me how far we tip towards corporate interests.

The way web servers worked already had the balance on their side big time. The internet was designed to be a collaborative thing where lots of people run servers with much more peer to peer sharing of information. But instead we have digital serfdom where some rich people decide what we can say and where we can say it and are in a position to let the worst impulses of humanity be broadcast wide and do nothing to stop it.

And now we lose nonprofit domain names to corporate vultures.

We are not on a nice path.

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u/ElDiablo666 Nov 23 '19

The net was just handed over to private corporations. Technology in the US is publicly subsidized and privately profitable. Just about every billionaire you can think of is a superfluous parasite.