Oh Reg, remember the good old days when the internet still was the free internut?
- freedom of speech
- net neutrality
- white nationalists roaming freely
- no google, facebook, twitter etc. monopolists
But it’s time to realize that we never owned it. There already had been monopolist Microsoft in these days, apple making a comeback and google investing heavily to the extend many of us asked ourselves: “how will they ever make profit of their huge investments?” and “they are putting up an independent video plattform (YT around 2005) for US and THEY are paying for it - that’s sooo nice of them but it’s crazy”.
Just as German Dr. Nina say, it only looked natural and free. But instead it may have been heavily sponsored and planned unfree and dehumanizing all along…Those IT-Elites tricked us and we were fools! Theodore K. was right all along.
I defended the internut as “our media” and “hope for freedom of expression and communication” back in 2015 in front of a religious congregation of tech-distrusters and look at me now…they were right all along…