Alas I felt that most of the solutions surrounded around government regulation and government action two things that basically have been fundamentally compromised by Citizens United.
I also am struck by the fact that he talked about how he's 50, how he's been an EFF for 20 plus years. How he remembered a better internet. And how in tech terms that basically doesn't just make him old that practically makes him prehistoric.
I wonder if the internet being associated with freedom is something that's just already dead that all the users of the internet that seem to matter that would be "the youth", already don't remember the internet as a free platform. And in fact it's not even one tech generation separated away.
The internet has a free platform that notion is itself prehistoric.
Because of consolidation of tech, the winners write, and delete , history
> I wonder if the internet being associated with freedom is something that's just already dead that all the users of the internet that seem to matter that would be "the youth", already don't remember the internet as a free platform.
I think this is largely accurate, and it's the greatest tragedy of all when it comes to the internet. This is the reason I think that the internet is dead. The things that made the internet truly great are but a distant memory.
I also am struck by the fact that he talked about how he's 50, how he's been an EFF for 20 plus years. How he remembered a better internet. And how in tech terms that basically doesn't just make him old that practically makes him prehistoric.
I wonder if the internet being associated with freedom is something that's just already dead that all the users of the internet that seem to matter that would be "the youth", already don't remember the internet as a free platform. And in fact it's not even one tech generation separated away.
The internet has a free platform that notion is itself prehistoric.
Because of consolidation of tech, the winners write, and delete , history
It was a fun talk.