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

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 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 -  (2 children)

lie

[–]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.