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| ▲ | phainopepla2 20 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sometimes gatekeeping is a good thing. I don't mind being gatekept from some areas of life, not everything is for me. Mass tourism absolutely has made some places less pleasant to visit, and more importantly, less pleasant to live in. |
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| ▲ | suburban_strike 20 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > You're unhappy that more people have access to it and wish it was still exclusive to the small group you conveniently belong to. This is not an argument made in good faith. It's a strawman you've stuffed with suggestive language to make them look petty and intolerant. |
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| ▲ | foxglacier 20 days ago | parent [-] | | They did look petty and intolerant. The explosion of popularity of the internet in the late 1990's was done by capitalism. Only a few privileged people had access to the pre-capitalism academic internet. Additional capitalism also made it interesting to the little people so that it's the hugely popular thing it is today. |
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| ▲ | dhosek 20 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It’s not the presence of the general public that ruined the internet, it’s the make-a-buck-at-all-costs attitude generated by capitalism that did it. |
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| ▲ | foxglacier 15 days ago | parent [-] | | The general public are only able and willing to use the internet because of the capitalism! When it was an academic thing, most people didn't care at all, and even if they did, they'd have to have social connections to gain access. Even when consumer ISPs were widespread, internet use was still much smaller than today because it wasn't as engaging without capitalism's social media. |
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