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December 19, 2023 at 10:34 am #1854055

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See, that is exactly the problem with the ever increasing monopolization – and attendant censorship, Karenism and restrictions on the internet. More power in fewer hands means repression and far fewer options for the peasants (us).

The younger onces among you may not believe this, but cyberland used to be a Wild West-type free for all (notice the use of the words ‘free’ and ‘all’……) until about the late 00s/early 10s, at which point more and more ‘moderation’ (read: censorship. thought police) started to creep in and that has been increasing at an ever more rapid rate since.

There used to be TONS of forums like this one, most of them rather small, some of them just as active – or more so – than this one and only very few of them were controlled by/affiliated with any ‘big name’ companies or publishers. TheyTube ceased to be a ‘platform’ when it sold out to Google after only a year and a half as an independent.

They have all but disappeared – along with most independent book stores, bike stores, game stores and a lot of other small brick-and-mortar real life meat space businesses, and today, if Mark Zuckerborg, Susan Wojcicky or the CEOs at Noamd Investements (formerly known as Games Workshop) don’t ike what you’re saying online, you ain’t gonna be allowed to say it…..