ol' dirtyremember when people used to say that censorship was a bug and the internet will route around it? i have questions.
Plaid@oldirty Even if shitpost, this is valid as fuck.
The failure mode was in users allowing themselves (and the collective capital-I "Internet") to be captured by applications, each of which were highly centralized, controlled, and (became) big businesses controlled by billionaires.
In the 90s when this quote was coined, internet comms were largely on open-ish protocols, and messaging could jump protocol gaps via word-of-keyboard etc
In this thesis I will