This is a hill I will die on: there was a turning point of the net, unnoticed by nearly everyone, that laid the ground work for the global political fuckery and rise of fascism we live with now.
It went unnoticed by most of the world, a totally inscrutable event. But everything changed after that moment.
It was when the Bronies were forced off 4chan.
verita84
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in reply to Quinn Norton • • •For me the change in the web came when all these stupid clickbait adverts starting appearing everywhere.
Then whole browser starting pages became clickbait and society gossip, and then the OS itself became advertising space.
phryk 🏴
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in reply to Quinn Norton • • •Correlation does not imply causation.
But you might be onto something here 😀
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retech
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in reply to Quinn Norton • • •I am truly asking this: what is the strange attractor that is turning them all into literal unironic Nazis?
I would have thought there were many different kinds of right-wing lunacy. You would think the message boards would have investigated every possible meme combination
And yet here we are with the richest man in the world armed with the most sophisticated technology that's been fed the sum total of human knowledge and it's just "Hitler did nothing wrong"
Eddie Fucksaw
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