I’m old enough to remember USENET and IRC. They were free, decentralized, and full of terrible. The solution isn’t as easy as just removing advertising as a business model.https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1074410762637008896 …
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Well if you pay money for people generating clicks on links promoting a message it will go viral. It doesn't matter if it's IRC or facebook.
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Hmm, not sure I agree, you can get away with it once before being banned on IRC (with ever increasing scale of ban, from channel ban to k-line). That business just isn't sustainable, but promoting a tweet or whatever is.
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