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How did we get here?? How did we stand by and let the internet turn into this? Hell the people that created these nightmarish algorithms read HN regularly

No one cares about holding big companies accountable in a real way.

There's internet arguments about everything, and there's usually a reason. Some people want it this way, others don't.

You won't believe how many people get paid to support/endorse/encourage X which is just fuel on the fire.

I don't really see change happening any time soon.

It’s not that people don’t want to hold them accountable, but rather there is no reliable means to do so without taking unreasonable personal risks.

What do you mean by personal risks?

“we” didn’t get anywhere. The “internet” didn’t turn into anything. Nobody has to use Twitter.

"We" adopted services that cost nothing, and this is the customer support we paid for.

Exactly. Plus, it's not like "back in the day" you could do anything about random bans on IRC, Usenet or whatever.

It was impossible to ban people from Usenet, because it was a distributed system.

It was possible to ban people from moderated groups, or complain to their ISP and get their ISP to ban them (much harder), or it was possible to simply cancel their messages.

I believe at the peak 1/3 of all usenet traffic was spam and 1/3 was spam cancels.

Back in the day the IRC ban would most likely be handed by a human, or if automation was involved, the person behind the automation would be reachable. There's the potential for assholes of course, but at least those assholes weren't trying to monopolize humanity's entire social fabric so you could always join another IRC network if you were banned on one.

We didn't pay he did not expect support. The advertisers did

We let normies use the internet. We had our shitfights before, sure, but when the wine mums and over opinionated 18 year olds got on the whole thing went to hell.

More like you let mba's run the internet. Eternal September is a real phenomenon but that's not what this post is.

at a certain point wouldn’t you say ‘screw it do i really need Twitter’?

Posting undoctored pictures of Hunter Biden smoking crack got me insta suspended.

Posting undoctored pictures of Biden being creepy with kids got me insta suspended too, for "depictions of child sexual abuse" lmao.

I wonder how deeply they check. In China you can't post pictures of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Photos will get instantly deleted (with eventual bans), even if you flip them or insufficiently add artifacts. Blurring/darkening corners seemed to do the trick.

careful or you'll get banned or downvoted here :P

I got permabanned from Twitter for a screenshot of Twitter's stock price.

Not that I cared, that place is a cesspool of 100 IQ LARPers anyway.

That's largely because the Biden campaign instructed Twitter, NYT, and Washington Post to bury the Hunter story prior to the election. It was ultimately decided by the American powers that be that getting a Democrat in office was more important than reporting the truth, so the folks at the top classified the entire story as "misinformation."

The contents of the laptop are real, Hunter did smoke crack, and Big Tech / Big Media signed a deal with the devil to ensure the American people were lied to about it until at least the inauguration. I'm not American and thankfully never will be, but I'd have a hard time ever trusting the Dems after that butchery of justice.

Because Republicans have never been butchers of justice. /s

They both suck and do shitty things, but despite me voting third party almost every primary and election (when possible), they've managed to convince everyone else that it's a wasted vote so no one else does, so we're stuck with choosing between a giant douche and a turd sandwich, to quote a classic South Park episode.

Both parties are shit but only one of those parties can convince the tech cos to hide their scandals for them

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