I'm old enough to remember those days too, y'know.
They never meant that individual resources couldn't be controlled.
If you are disappointed, it is because you misinterpreted their prophecy. They promised you freedom, and you have it. You merely did not grasp that the price is atomization. I have said here before, "facebook is just a url", and people laugh. But that's really all it is. In this place, it is VERY difficult for them to bring what's yours down if you do it right.
People say "but muh parler". PARLER USED AWS. As the saying goes, NOT YOUR KEY, NOT YOUR BITCOIN. If parler had run their own hardware from day one they'd never have been brought down.
20-25 years ago I had professors citing that the same couldn’t happen to the internet. That it would treat censorship as damage and route around it….
We see how that’s worked out…
And they were correct.
I'm old enough to remember those days too, y'know.
They never meant that individual resources couldn't be controlled.
If you are disappointed, it is because you misinterpreted their prophecy. They promised you freedom, and you have it. You merely did not grasp that the price is atomization. I have said here before, "facebook is just a url", and people laugh. But that's really all it is. In this place, it is VERY difficult for them to bring what's yours down if you do it right.
People say "but muh parler". PARLER USED AWS. As the saying goes, NOT YOUR KEY, NOT YOUR BITCOIN. If parler had run their own hardware from day one they'd never have been brought down.