DamnWolves!
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- Jan 30, 2021
No, I agree with you. I don't know if you recall, but in 2004, we had pretty much considered material racism an extinct issue; I told a black guy I knew that he should sit at the back of the bus when were going on our grad trip and he told me to go fuck myself and then we shared headphones while watching a movie on an 5th gen ipod (in retrospect, perhaps a little insensitive, but no one really cared because again--it was considered a largely solved issue). Perhaps the predicament we find ourselves in now had already started back then; I think The GAP was selling shirts with Che Guvera's face on it by then. This really ties into the rest of the progressives' "long march through the institutions"; I don't think the internet becoming normie-fied was the primary cause of that push, but I certainly think it was a casualty.
Right, and the first iphone came out in 2007. My phone before that was a Motorola RAZR; it took like pictures in like a 480x240 resolution. There was no app store at this time. Facebook had just been unveiled to the public, having been only for university and high school students with a required school e-mail to sign up until late 2006. Digg was busy sinking itself. Reddit was hoping Ron Paul would win the Presidency. Obama was busy pulling the race card to beat Hillary.
There's your mid-2000s fag-ification of the internet for you.
I agree, but it offends my sense of propriety that the internet has been centralized to such a degree and what they've done with that centralization is nothing short of dictatorial. There was once a time where Google editorializing their search results would have caused major regulatory concerns. At the risk of politisperging here, Western countries are supposed to be able to withstand some level of fringe culture without needing to apply pressure on the levers of power to silence it; those were the rules during the 80s and 90s when the Left was putting crucifixes in jars of urine and calling it art, making obscene pornography and pumping explicit lyrics into your children's ears while the moral majority got outraged: that they can do it because of 'freedom of speech'..
Then, once the pendulum swings the other way, they want to shut the door behind them and say that there's "no place in society for hate", where hate is defined as something as nebulous as saying "all lives matter" or whatever the boomer sentiment of the day is. I regard this as an existential threat to our way of life. Sadly, that defiant, 'edgy', leftist media machine that gave us such societally corrosive bullshit as Will & Grace and Marilyn Manson under the auspices of 'freedom of speech' has convinced the majority of the country that freedom of speech no longer takes priority over not making people uncomfortable. So yeah, I can be a shitlord here, but I've watched as platforms first booted off the blatantly offensive and worked their way through the center-right and the moderates, then they went after 'misinformation'; they took sites off search engines, payment processors started banning people and groups, Amazon refused to sell certain books because 'muh racism', Twitter banned a sitting President, DNS registrars, CDN and DDOS providers all throughout the Western World started erasing people from the known internet and governments started hunting down and prosecuting people for shitposts and memes, all while "normal people" cheer it on. I think the situation is scarier than you're giving it credit for.
Sure, but I think it's undeniably becoming more difficult. I'm sure Null will tell you that this site is a whole lot more difficult to keep online and safe than it was when it started.
Well, that's just it. All I was trying to do was have fun, but the new moral busy-bodies won't let you, and it's actually kind of tragic that so many 'normal' people agree with the direction we're headed. Don't get me wrong, I try not to take it all too seriously, but I want the freedom to say what I want to who I want without some obnoxiously retarded third party trying to ruin my life.
