Why did the internet go from being edgy to ultra progressive in the span of 10 years?

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[–]StillLessons 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Consolidation of corporate control. The internet started out with the genuine capacity to connect people relatively directly to each other. The central control freaks managed to get hold of the infrastructure, and now all contact "person to person" is actually no longer that. It's now "person -> central censors -> person". It's the illusion of people talking to each other which - when then the censor in the middle is unrecognized - is even worse than people not being able to talk to each other in the first place.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

A lot of the censorship was pushed by government who were in turn pushed by a worried public. Most tech companies don't want to spend money censoring people.

[–]Markimus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

lie

[–]William_World 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think corporations didn't "want" to spend any money but realized they had to or people would use the internet to exchange info and organize and rise up. Revolutions happened in history. So corporations did spend money on paying people to be mods and admins to censor and also to develop AI that can censor for them. Corporations do spend money on things when they feel they need to.

[–]Markimus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Nah they're just socially engineering people into being better consumers. Easy way to increase the size of a market is to increase the Lifetime Value of each customer by increasing how much they want to consume or by adding new customers (immigration).

If you learn about Time Preference then look at what all 'Woke' stuff promotes. It's basically encouraging people to be more and more impulsive/high time preference so they're more shallow, materialistic, consumeristic etc. 'But Markimus, what does gay stuff have to do with this?' look at how consumeristic gay lifestyles are, also these people have no reason to own anything because they won't pass it onto anyone, gays and such are the perfect Civilians for the capitalist world. Own nothing, be happy. Consume endlessly, have hatred for family, faith, self-reliance, asceticism etc.

The ROI of the ADL's control of the internet is huge for the jewish community and capitalists. They're simultaneously socially engineering people to be as easily controlled by jews as possible, whilst also making them ultra-consumers.

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

that's the capitalist notion that we wish was true. They just want consumers. In truth there is something more important to them than profits. Not being guillotined. Woke stuff costs them profits so why do they do it according to capitalism? Cuz profits are not the most important thing. Keeping us divided and conquered does help them though, fighting ourselves rather than guillotining the rich, which both the left and right would agree to do.

[–]Markimus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Woke stuff costs them profits so why do they do it according to capitalism?

No it doesn't. It's long term social engineering designed to make people more consumeristic.

No god? More consumption. No community? More consumption. No offspring? More consumption. Move more money into the hands of women? More consumption.

The list is endless, everything that is 'progressive', libertinist etc ultimately just leads to making people more consumerist. In the short term there are sometimes mini-boycotts when a brand does something outrageous, but what realistically is going to happen? Every single company HAS to be progressive because Finance demands this, therefore every single business you buy from is 'Woke'. There is no avoiding this for 99%+ of the population, 'go woke go broke' is nonsense cope for conservatives to feel better about the fact that the society they thought they live in doesn't actually exist and instead you just have jews and psychopathic capitalists raping your land and your children figuratively and literally.

But yes your point is also a portion of it, it works as a defence mechanism by making the population more deracinated and atomised as well as polarised along stupid lines.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nope, why do you think they have different rules in more censor happy countries like China?

The Guardian literally shut down the comments under their articles because they couldn't afford to moderate them any more and lost a lot of advertising money due to that.

[–]Markimus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's the opposite way around. The government doesn't give a fuck what the masses think, they censor because they're lobbied by people with money. Big tech censors because they're all controlled by the ADL, the ADL controls them all because they're jews who are blood related to the jews who own Blackrock. Blackrock has people on the boards of every publically traded company.

Power doesn't flow from random unorganised, unwashed masses. It flows from organised people with extreme amounts of wealth.