jdck1326

>10 hours away

Time isn't a very good measure of distance

People all over the world read and pay for literature. You can find online communities on sites like 4chan (boards.4chan.org/lit) and reddit (reddit.com/r/literature and reddit.com/r/AskLiteraryStudies) with a strong focus on classics and contemporary literature. Also communities at any university with a solid humanities department of course.

I'd never heard of Paper Towns and I suspect it isn't what people would call literature in the sense the linked article meant the word, but a quick Google tells me it sold millions of copies.

So she agrees with her son that “This is why reading is over. None of my friends like it. Nobody wants to do it anymore.”?

Countless millions of young people read. Many of them enjoy reading the classics and many enjoy reading contemporary stuff. Many also write.

Literature isn't dying any time soon, despite what one person's son's experience might suggest.

"all for privacy" implies that duckduckgo cares about privacy at an ethical level, which doesn't really seem to be the case. I think it's more likely that they simply saw private search as a hole in a profitable market and decided to try to fill it.

Before founding duckduckgo, CEO Gabriel Weinberg ran Names Database. Names database was a social media site that collected personal information much more aggressively than any modern site that I'm aware of. This information was sold happily by Weinberg for about ten million dollars to classmates.com (a particularly controversial subsidiary of United Online) just two years before founding duckduckgo.

There's a difference between censoring and curating.

Popular subreddits don't seem to to curate for meaningful discussion. So jokes, memes, and other low-effort comments often make discussion on reddit close to worthless.

The exceptions are always either small niche subreddits where a common deep interest focuses the discussion, or they're curated subreddits e.g. the neutral politics subreddit.

And as for censoring, moderators are often accused of selectively enforcing rules to favour their agendas etc. I must admit I'm not sure how much that actually happens though.