- Joined
- Feb 16, 2021
I feel like we're fucked either way because Dems want to control the Internet for ideological reasons, and Republicans want to parcel it off to the highest bidder for profits, and like Null said on a recent MATI if America falls on the Internet issue then it's genuinely over for the rest of the world.Despite all their gnashing of teeth on net neutrality, no one is really talking about the idea that there does need to be some sort of trust-busting for these digital giants that basically function as utilities for the internet age. Not that Republicans are necessarily better on this, but it's a huge, obviously ideologically motivated, blind spot in the approach a lot of people who claim to be championing a free internet.
I live in hope that we see the Internet and the banks regulated the same as other public utilities where there has to be unrestricted access for everyone, but I fear that ship has long since sailed. The only remaining hope I cling to is that someone invents the next evolution in human communication to replace the Internet, but I can't even conceive what that would be, and I also don't think there are any turbo-autists left to create it.