I don't think 16 August 2017 was "the day the Internet dies", but just the day people realized they can't trust any centralized providers.
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Replying to @octal
You outsource speech to a bunch of private corporations and provide no legislation to force them to deliver service, and...?
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
It's fine if they're unimportant, commodity in competitive market, feasibly recreated, or regulated.
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Replying to @octal
You're just reiterating the problem. What's the solution?
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
For PayPal (and payments in general), cryptocurrencies and other Internet-native money seems to be doing a good job.
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Replying to @octal
Yes, decentralizing things works. But it doesn't scale very well. And Cloudflare is all about scale.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @octal
But isn't that the reverse of saying scale will work for the vast majority of "typical" users?
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By far the biggest concern is the monopolies that can effectively shut someone out entirely. But same problem lies behind fake news.
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(Also lies behind defunding of journalism.)
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