The Open Web is Dying

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[–]The_Lear_Bluce_Ree 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The fact of the matter is that your standard person doesn't give a flying shit about privacy or a censored web. User data is a bigger industry than oil now, they don't care. Snowden tells everyone about PRISM and the surveillance state, doesn't even hit their radar (there was a crazy poll that stated something like 80% of America didn't know who he was).

If they can't see it or aren't told to be outraged by the major news groups, they don't care. Youtube is literally censoring wrong think and no one would ever even be bothered to go to an alternative URL to watch a video from someone they like.

We kind of deserve our fate in sad way. The 2% that do care don't matter because they're only 2% (it's probably much smaller than that)

[–]sad_campaign 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If this pandemic has shown me anything it is that most people suck at thinking for themselves.