William Gillis 🏴Jul 17, 2024

The entire reactionary wave is The Backlash To The Internet.

The creation of the internet allowed anarchist (and similar) ideas to rapidly spread in influence. The resulting catalyzing culture of half-converted liberals (eg tumblr) went wide and irked selfish bastards who in turn unionized.

Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴
We won a fuck ton of ground in the 90s because neither the establishment or reactionaries really understood what was implicitly at stake in the early internet. This played out into inexorable cultural and social advances throughout the 00s. Gamergate was the enemy waking up.
Jul 17, 2024 at 1:34amWeb
Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴Jul 17, 2024
Because they couldn't even come close to winning in the advanced market of ideas or via non-state activism, the reactionaries realized they had to seize the state and impose a draconian level of total slaughter and authoritarianism to put the genie back in the bottle.
Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴Jul 17, 2024
And accruing small failures around the structure of the internet and our technologies catalyzed until everything was centralized platforms, the internet was basically dead, and billionaires and vapid clickbait infotainment grifters could seize its corpse to push fascism.
Show threadLisPiJul 17, 2024
@rechelon I can recognize some of that as having happened, but the corposcum platforms didn't actually swallow everything, not manage to kill the net.

What they did is bury it away from widespread awareness, which is also a problem, but not quite the same one.

Whatever failures exist at a smaller more distributed scale are magnified by magnitudes in the corposcum platform, which are by default hostile to the users. It's only downhill from there.
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Jul 17, 2024

@rechelon

SHOT: https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology

CHASER: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/?gift=-Fv9R4P6cEEN68vsamhTNL4F3Q0lkmVo4Ric9iSPEFM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Californian Ideology

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