Pirate Bay Co-founder: We’ve Lost the Internet to Capitalists

[Karl Marx]

https://www.geek.com/tech/pirate-bay-co-founder-weve-lost-the-internet-to-capitalists-1710574/

"Sunde claims the only option is to force governments to regulate companies and their data ethics practices more strictly. He doesn’t pretend it’s a perfect solution. Just a means of making an awful situation tolerable.

“We, as the people, kind of lost the internet back to the capitalist society… We had this small opening of a decentralized internet, but we lost it by being naive. These companies try to sound good to take over, that they’re actually ‘giving’ you something. Like Spotify gives you music and has great passion for music, and all of the successful PR around it… Big data and Big Tobacco are similar in that sense. Before, we didn’t realize how dangerous tobacco actually was, but now we know it gives you cancer. We didn’t know that big data could be a thing, but now we know it is. We’ve been smoking all our lives on big data’s products, and now we can’t quit.”"

[Ad Bot]

[Electrk.]

is it time for us to seize the memes of production?

[Karl Marx]

is it time for us to seize the memes of production?

I hope so.

[e-maxx]

idk this dude sounds a lil loco

[Conan]

uh

does using big data products give us literal cancer and take lives?

this brown townogy (and worry) is vastly out of proportion. i dont know why you wouldnt expect big internet companies to exist and dominate the market; the difference with the internet is alternatives are far easier to adopt and thus provide space for smaller niche companies and people to still find users

sure there are some ethical concerns regarding use of data, but people freely give it to have nice services catered to them so idk

[Maxwell.]

internet capitalism really isn't akin to cancer

[IkeTheGeneric]

dae hate money??

[Master Matthew²]

These "big internet companies" toppled the old TV ones who still desperatley claw at the wall to get out, unfortunstly the head of the fcc is a richardhead and hes gonna kill net neutrality no matter what anyone says.

So much for democracy...

[NotBomberguy]

These "big internet companies" toppled the old TV ones who still desperatley claw at the wall to get out, unfortunstly the head of the fcc is a richardhead and hes gonna kill net neutrality no matter what anyone says.

So much for democracy...

is it possible to impeach the head of the FCC

[Conan]

These "big internet companies" toppled the old TV ones who still desperatley claw at the wall to get out, unfortunstly the head of the fcc is a richardhead and hes gonna kill net neutrality no matter what anyone says.

So much for democracy...

well i mean we voted Annoying Orange into office, which indirectly led to that appointment. i wouldnt say its time to topple democracy and instill a republic or somethig

[TeeOS]

so hows the soviet union holding up kimon

[Refticus]

tbh the internet is good right now.
content creators are getting paid as more things are online than before

[NotBomberguy]

tbh the internet is good right now.
content creators are getting paid as more thingd are online than before

yeah but muh net neutrality

[IkeTheGeneric]

Man, I'm depressed. Life isn't as fulfilling as it used to be. I know! I'll just blame all my ills on capitalism

[Refticus]

yeah but muh net neutrality

net neutrality works perfectly fine. websites such as netflix, audible, steam and whatever kids use today pay the creators of the product. but websites such as the pirate bay which steals content and puts them up for download at no cost mean that the content creator gets nothing.