Lemmy and Mastodon seem to be doing the “open Internet” just fine. We should probably not try to draw too many conclusions from what’s happening at Twitter and Reddit, both of which are turning into raging dumpster fires that go beyond just closing down the APIs.
That is the part the media doesn’t understand, we don’t need corporations controlling the internet. The days of being stuck behind a corporate-controlled wall are over!
The irony of an article about the end of the open internet that I can’t read because there is a paywall.
The internet was fine before corporations brought their troll armies, bots, “adverts”, and general misinformation trash to it. Mark Metaturd and people like him aren’t the internet. He’s a symptom of elite corporate bs trying to steal more public time, money, and space.
If I could bet on it I would bet Metaturd pays for DDoS attacks on rivals.
Corporations and governments. Plenty of CCP and Kremlin accounts online.
It’s a clever take, but if true, then it may be inevitable. Politically, even if one party tries to pass the regulations proposed here, the other will 100% use the catch-all “we need to regulate AI!!!” scare tactics as an excuse to accept corporate bri-- I mean, to permit lobbying against any rights to free information.
Good article!
