Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
despicable@lemmy.today 1 day agoAnd how would you know without the internet being developed under a different system at the time?
Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
despicable@lemmy.today 1 day agoAnd how would you know without the internet being developed under a different system at the time?
Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s not an argument. I don’t need to speculate on hypotheticals when reality already proves the point.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 day ago
The internet would not have existed without government investment. Back when the idea of the internet was being floated around in the early 1960s the US government did contact every major telecom company in the country snd all flat out refused meaning the government had to publically foot the bill (and the work).
No, capitalists would never, ever have invented the internet.
Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And I never said that they invented the internet.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 day ago
No, but you implied it, and you also implied that the reason we have it grow as it did is because of the government. This is bullshit. Capitalists did not invent that or the system anymore than they would have invented telegraphy, radio, telephones, and other such stuff. Even shit like the telephone was done initially out of a ‘hey do you think it can be done?’ by Alexander Graham Bell (And yes, I am sure you will bring up Elisha Grey and the race to the patent office, but even that is irrelevant).
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
You are speculating on hypotheticals though, since no one can know for certain how things would have unfolded in a different world.
I’m not even going to argue that capitalism doesn’t get you some positive outcomes for certain people.
Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
How am I speculating when my argument is based on reality?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
You’re speculating that an internet wouldn’t have emerged without capitalism. Capitalism exists, therefore we can’t know if that’s true or not.