[7/*] But the thing I realized just today that was so depressing is _of course that's going to be true_. The reason it was that way in the first place was because the majority of people must have wanted it that way. Most people _don't_ want other people to be themselves.
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[8/*] If most people _wanted_ other people to be themselves and express themselves, our _mainstream_ media would have always reflected that! Why this was not obvious to me, I don't know.
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[9/*] So this leads to obvious depressing conclusion: the more people engage in computing, the more it becomes just like mainstream media. Because if anything else were to be true, it would have already been true of the media that came before it :(
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[10/*] So you don't have to wonder what the future of communication looks like! It looks just like the past. If books were banned, movies will be banned; if movies were banned, YouTubes will be banned.
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[11/*] So computers didn't really offer anything different. The only thing they were was _new_. And something new has a brief period when the majority of people aren't using it, so their desire to force people to conform isn't applied.
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[12/*] I'm not sure if that makes me more or less depressed. It's a depressing thought, but maybe also one that is slightly motivating: it means we can always make a new - albeit shortly lived - place free from the demands of social conformity.
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[13/*] We just make a new medium for communication, and for a brief time, before it becomes popular, people will be able to be themselves there. The depressing part is, of course, that it will only last for a short while.
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Replying to @cmuratori
The internet is much bigger than Twitter and Facebook though. There should still be a place for hacker-ethic like communities. They're just harder to find now.
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But that's not what the thread is about, right? What I'm saying is, there will not be a thing that everyone uses but that is also not repressive. The reason you can find hacker-ethic communities is because they are small.
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Replying to @cmuratori
Another possible explanation is the minority rule. People who want everyone to conform are loud and dedicated and use moralizing language that no one wants to bother annoying them or stand in their way.https://outline.com/g6UHXA
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But that is just an explanation for the dynamic. It doesn't matter _why_ more humans equals more repression. It could be any number of reasons, including "minority rule". The point is simply that it _always_ happens, as far as we can tell.
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