Whenever I think about what did the most damage to internet culture over the past ten years, xkcd 1357 comes out on top. Not Twitter. Not Facebook. This simple comic.
People, in the main, seem to have lost track of the idea of precedent. They've also forgotten the hard-won lesson that weapons sharpened against the universally reviled are eventually used against anyone seen as an enemy. It starts with Alex Jones getting booted off of YouTube, today it's QAnon being completely banned from Facebook. In another five or ten years, publishing companies may well have political officers from the Atlantic Council peeping over their shoulder on the day-to-day.
People, in the main, seem to have lost track of the idea of precedent. They've also forgotten the hard-won lesson that weapons sharpened against the universally reviled are eventually used against anyone seen as an enemy. It starts with Alex Jones getting booted off of YouTube, today it's QAnon being completely banned from Facebook. In another five or ten years, publishing companies may well have political officers from the Atlantic Council peeping over their shoulder on the day-to-day.