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Leopards eating everyone's face these days.
This is all according to plan for Google tho. What could be better than having everyone sign up for the GoogleNet? We’ll finally back to the ways of pre-Internet AOL and Compuserve.
But in a court filing
Why is this legal? It's always like this with large companies. " Yeah we were just lying to everyone all the time, but this filing for court is the absolute truth!"
It's the same as Fox News which always says they're fair and balanced news and they bring the news nobody else does, but in a court filing... They suddenly claim that no reasonable person would believe them to be a real news organization... Uuuh huh...
Any court should dismiss this filing immediately and punish them for submitting a false filing, or continuously lying outside the courts. This sort of crap should be inadmissible.
They are making it happen.
There will be such a thing that arises as a "grey net" I think. Not the dark web, but also not mainstream internet.
So basically the fediverse?
I mean at some point even websites seem grey net when the mainstream internet is basically AOL Future.
I think if there's going to be an Eternal August version of the internet, it will be hidden in plain sight created by some of the same people that want to use it.
I think the term you are looking for is "Deep Net", although it originally meant websites that weren't indexed by web searches.
Not to mention a lot of site traffic is now getting tanked by the UK blocking everything because of the "online safety act" that's actually anything but (source)
Most recently my friend couldn't access a Reddit post about a dental issue of all things because it got marked as NSFW and it asked for her face or ID (can't remember) so she could see it (I ended up making her download TOR)
And Reddit completely.blocks you from reading when coming from a VPN exit, unless you are logged in (at least with. MullvadVPN).
Brave new world... :-(
Not if you put "old." before the "Reddit" into the address bar, the old UI doesn't force you to login
At least on TOR
I wonder how long old.reddit will stay available.
Thanks, will try that!
It is a 50/50 shot for me if it makes you login with old or not
Helloooo darkweb!
The problem for years has been good stuff being drowned in slop.
It's not going to be fixed.
One of my most unfortunate thoughts is that people were as excited about radio and television before they were centralized.
Once we lost synchronous internet connection the internet started evolving.
Content currated by our betters to help us fulfill their lives.
Ever since search engine “optimization” became a thing — which was not long after the Internet was opened to the public in the ‘90s.
Capitalism has distilled its parasitic behaviour down to a science to suck the life out of anything that dare to stand out, and leave its corpse dry, for the sake of more profits.
Doctorow is never wrong.
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