The web is the bane of modernity. It's one of the few areas of "technology" it can be argued has objectively gotten worse over time. Not just better at a slower rate.... worse.
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Replying to @PwnySlaystation @Jonathan_Blow
Almost like it's directly proportional to how many people are "working" on it. Something like 75% of my graduating class in comp sci is doing web dev now. You couldn't pay me to do that job
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Also, "the web" en toto is actually not popular. What is "popular" are actually obsessive behavioral exploits like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. They are new vices. So saying the web is "doing something right" is like saying casinos and meth are "doing something right".
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
There _are_ people who may be doing actual technology or things on the web, but they are not the people who are making the money. The money, as usual, is going to the people exploiting behavioral problems, since the government hasn't yet stepped in.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
Now we are seeing the government start to step in, and this is unsurprising. Just like they ban drugs, tax alcohol, and restrict gambling/prostitution/pornography to certain zones, the same thing will happen to Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/etc.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
All of this is unsurprising and exactly what we should have expected. Think that web companies did something useful because they made a bunch of money is absurd, because they definitely didn't, it's just easy to make a ton of money when you're free from government regulation.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
I mean ask any businessman if they think they'd have trouble making billions of dollars if they were given a free pass to do literally anything they wanted without following any laws, and I think they'd probably say "no".
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I mean you're talking about an industry that didn't even have to obey copyright. It's absurd. Of course you can make billions of dollars if you get to use everyone else's IP for free. It's not rocket science.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
I've seen reports on YouTube and one on Pornhub, arguing that both grew gigantic by selling copyrighted content, which was enabled by DMCA.
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