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

[Karl Marx]

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

Should we really have to centralize all of our data, all control over the massive network of the internet to just a handful of small companies? When interests align between these monopolies, there is very little we can do to prevent them from trampling on our liberties in exchange for profit. It's not a coincidence that we inch closer to losing net neutrality every year.

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[Ipquarx]

is it possible to impeach the head of the FCC

I'm 99.9% sure that Annoying Orange can have him fired. He obviously has chosen not to do so.

[Blocky943]

Should we really have to centralize all of our data, all control over the massive network of the internet to just a handful of small companies? When interests align between these monopolies, there is very little we can do to prevent them from trampling on our liberties in exchange for profit. It's not a coincidence that we inch closer to losing net neutrality every year.

god they don't call you karl marx for nothing huh

[IkeTheGeneric]

Should we really have to centralize all of our data

eventually yes, if we don't want it to be lost

[Maxwell.]

god they don't call you karl marx for nothing huh

well you gotta remember, he made this account to troll the alt right by acting just as handicapped

[Master Matthew²]

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.

No, you misunderstand.
Net Neutrality is going to be dead by the end of the year, the FCC head takes heed from fake bot comments of stolen names, but dismisses millions of real comments because...
???

[Karl Marx]

eventually yes, if we don't want it to be lost

Better question: should we trust this data centralization to companies that routinely sell them in exchange for money? Should we completely centralize the market, like we are currently doing on and off the internet?


Does this look like healthy capitalist competition to you?

[IkeTheGeneric]

Also, Kimon views the general public as untapped free labor. I view the general public as the willful, free-spirited end users. VOTE FOR ME 2044

Better question: should we trust this data centralization to companies that routinely sell them in exchange for money?

I think we should leave this as an option for people who feel like it's a Good Thing To Do. Either way, I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

[Refticus]

No, you misunderstand.
Net Neutrality is going to be dead by the end of the year, the FCC head takes heed from fake bot comments of stolen names, but dismisses millions of real comments because...
???

how many times has the end of net neutrality been brought up by the fcc?
and how many times has it not resulted in a full scale internet riot?

it's really not going to happen, even if the FCC pushes incredibly hard for it.

[Conan]

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.

thats not the problem of not having net neutrality

the simplest example is not having it allows network companies to see "oh, you're using netflix, im sorry but we will have to throttle your network speed due to high load unless you pay us an extra $10 a month to access netflix at normal/faster speeds," or charge netflix extra to send its data fast to consumers, which still get passed on to consumers

and its a very real threat cause if companies could do this they would cause its easy extra $$ for heavy traffic. right now they cant though

[Ipquarx]

eventually yes, if we don't want it to be lost

I'd like to point out that, while on a small scale this isn't necessarily true, on the large scale (which the internet is), in practice it would be more or less infeasible to make the internet completely and totally decentralized.

There are things out there like mesh networks, but they have several flaws in them that would seriously reduce practicality on the large scale of current internet.

[Karl Marx]

and its a very real threat cause if companies could do this they would cause its easy extra $$ for heavy traffic. right now they cant though

Large scale lobbying gets a lot of things done. Net neutrality isn't sticking around much longer.

[IkeTheGeneric]

I'd like to point out that, while on a small scale this isn't necessarily true, on the large scale (which the internet is), in practice it would be more or less infeasible to make the internet completely and totally decentralized.

There are things out there like mesh networks, but they have several flaws in them that would seriously reduce practicality on the large scale of current internet.

We need to store all the internet's data in a big virtual piggybank for safe keeping, and there's only one man who can do that

the president of the virtual space

Large scale lobbying gets a lot of things done. Net neutrality isn't sticking around much longer.

Mark my loving words Karl Marx, I will singlehandedly save net neutrality with the power of profit

[Deus Ex]

Kind of funny that the co-founder of a site dedicated to stealing things and distributing them to the public free of charge complains about capitalism.

[Karl Marx]

Kind of funny that the co-founder of a site dedicated to stealing things and distributing them to the public free of charge complains about capitalism.

Every time you pirate your anime research you're supporting the destruction of capitalism ;)