Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoAgain, you’re missing the point but I guess that’s okay. Let me lay it out simply: I’m not here to defend anything, I’m just here to state the truth. Everything has positives and negatives, and capitalism is no exception. But the fact remains that it’s the reason we have the internet in the hands of ordinary people. Denying this is simply denying reality.
As for the agricultural revolution example you brought it up, not me. And you have to remember, this isn’t some far-fetched comparison like the agricultural revolution; capitalism has a direct link to the spread of the internet.
But hey, maybe we can just agree to disagree there.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Capitalism prevailed during the rise of the internet but correlation is not causation.
Rockets were sent into space and capitalists would surely love to claim that achievement too, unfortunately it was first fascists followed by communists with the capitalists getting the bronze medal. Should we now decide that space flight is fascist-communist? No. Only scientists and engineers know how to do that. Why didn’t Genghis Khan invent the internet? He didn’t have enough capitalists, surely that was the problem.
Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
You can keep the wool over your eyes and defend your claim blindly. It doesn’t really matter. Unbiased historians will record what happened as it is, at the very least. If you can’t distinguish between invention and distribution, that’s your problem, I suppose.