Web 2.0 was the world of social media. Its real heyday was in the 2000’s when all the social media platforms cared about was getting an audience. Since the IPO of Facebook in 2012, all the social media platforms care about is making a profit, and these two things are incompatible with each other.
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In the past year AI Art generation has gone from non-existent, to threatening every aspect of art. Spending most of my life in computer related fields including studying how AI works and learns, but at the same time making a living generating game art, I can understand both sides of this issue.
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? Part 1: Bored of the InternetPart 2: The Death of Politics and ReligionPart 3: The Decline of Movies and TVPart 4: Trapped in an Andrew Niccol FilmPart 5: The Tech ApocalypsesPart 6: Internet Memes are Destroying Civilization Part 7: The Dream Is Dead! I’ve been working on various different aspects of the Internet for
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In the last year, I wrote about government interference in the internet, and corporate interference of the internet, but there is another group that has to be acknowledged, the users themselves who often use illegal means to make money online. This group is decentralized and located all over the world. The internet is filled with fraud. Advertising Fraud Hucksters infected
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This month the most popular unfiltered social media site Tumblr has banned porn, nudity and any other sexual content starting December 17th 2018. Of course sites have every right to ban whatever they want, I’m not that upset about the ban itself, although it likely means I’ll be off the platform in the future. I maintained a couple of pages
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The battle for Net-Neutrality, which despite of what you heard is still ongoing, seems to have changed government regulators attitudes towards the internet on what they can and cannot regulate and censor. I knew this is where it would go. As soon as you let Government change how the internet works, you open the doors to all sorts of shenanigans.
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In the past year, the Internet has changed. It is not as friendly as it once was. It has become a battleground that is threatening all of its users, and the companies that do business here. Worse, many rules we used to live by to protect ourselves, no longer apply. There is a lot to write about here, and plenty
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As my last post documented there is a plague on the internet that is having a negative affect on civilization as a whole. Facebook is the leading cause of this plague, and despite many opportunities, has completely failed to do anything about it. Pretty much every open group has been taken over by trolls and spam and it is impossible
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? Part 6 (read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) My last post was on happiness, this is the exact opposite. As you all know by now the US has elected a ultra right wing dictator wannabe who the only hope he gives to continued freedom in this country is that
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? Part 5 (read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) Between national news and recent personal experiences, I believe we are on the verge of one or more technical apocalypse. This could come two possible forms: Either, technology advances to the point that it bypasses the need for humanity, or we grow more
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