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		unishark on Jan 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach... > 10 or 15 years ago people looked at web 1.0, saw many good communities and valuable conversations and said "we need to protect free speech". > Today people looks at Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/Reddit, see mismanaged cesspools and declare that we need centralized speech control. ...In other words people are completely taking all the amazing things we have today for granted.

mcguire on Jan 28, 2021 [–]

Or perhaps realizing that those amazing things really aren't all that wonderful.

Very few things are an unalloyed good.

unishark on Feb 5, 2021 | [–]

Someone views a glass as half empty, I point out it can be viewed as half full.

Your someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet counter is that, no, it is half empty? Thanks for the contribution.

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