Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? Part 1: Bored of the Internet Part 2: The Death of Politics and Religion Part 3: The Decline of Movies and TV Part 4: Trapped in an Andrew Niccol Film Part 5: The Tech Apocalypses Part 6: Internet Memes are Destroying Civilization Part 7: The Dream Is Dead! I've …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Thanks to Governments: A Radically Different Internet Is Coming!
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 …
Continue reading The Internet Is Becoming A Very Scary Place!
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Internet Memes are Destroying Civilization!
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 …
UPDATE: In support of the July 12th Battle For The Net, I am rerunning this post from 3 years ago to remind people what Net Neutrality is really all about. For more info on the protest, go here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/ To write the FCC: https://dearfcc.org/ I am completely baffled at the conservatives here in America's ability …
It was not that long ago that people did not think the internet mattered to the economy as a whole. Now it seems the internet IS the economy. This has created a lot of interest in trying to control the internet from multiple different directions. These attempts to control that which is at this stage …
Continue reading Five Things That Could Destroy the Internet
