I think the internet will get worse in the future; someone gets offended by everything, nobody lives without being criticized here.
I think the internet will get worse in the future; someone gets offended by everything, nobody lives without being criticized here.
Theirs will be what they want it to be, while ours will be:
One day, while playing in their great-grandparents attic, a kid living in that society will find an object long forgotten. It will be all dusty and they will brush it to realize it has a shiny cover with bright colors. They will open it and gasp in surprise. The interior looks like if a pile of sheets of paper were glued together. They will flip those sheets and will wonder what use was there for all those black squiggly lines running all over them. What was it used for? And then, already bored with that odd object without a screen, with multimedia, that kid will put it back with all the other dusty objects not knowing this object used to be called a book and that those odd squiggly lines were called print. And that people were able to read books and they were used to help people learn and think better, or just have fun all by themselves. That kid will swiftly move back to the living room because the next episode of some series is soon to begin and, with everyone else in the family watching their very own content in silent, while they all wait for the meal to be delivered by some Uber drone. At one moment, that little kid will realize their fingers are all dirty from the dust in the attic, they will shrug and quickly move their attention back to their screen because its the ads playing, every 3 minutes, and they’re always the most exciting content of the show!
A perfect world.
Youre totally right, I mean the majority of people haven’t read a book in multiple years so we arent far off from that. And people can barely hand write any more as well.
Im not even old and I can see the collapse looming.
Just have to look at China, you need real name verification to even buy a domain name.
We also need to be identified to buy a domain name here in Europe (in most of it, at least).
As a user, I’m still allowed to own a random domain name but I need to be identified to buy it (and the informations need to be valid). I’m also allowed to not use my real name to sign whatever I publish online but for how long? It feels to me like this too will soon go away (its too easy, and for them it probably is too tempting, to conceive a law that will make it way too risky for poor little children to read random posts by random people hiding behind a pseudonym, even if their real identify has already been registered for years and even if said content is solely aimed at adult readers.
That won’t be a big deal for me, I used to publish under my real name a few, many, years ago. I should be able to do it again… if I ever decide it’s worth publishing anything. But a law of this type will probably become the real tombstone under which the online freedom of expression will rest.
RIP, dear friend.
I don’t have the words to answer you properly, but I can see that you are a wise person.
Wise, I wouldn’t know but since I’m not rich I know a lot of people will sincerely doubt it, instead considering I’m just another loser. They probably would be right?