Internet didn't change, it's population did. It's 8 billion potential victims and all bit more sophisticated thieves under one roof.

Can't blame Internet. People which were scammed "offline" are now scammed online.

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dumberquestions a day ago | parent | next [-]

The internet is the people using it, if many of its users have come up with more effective ways to exploit the rest than the internet has become a worse place.

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pixl97 a day ago | parent [-]

The internet is an ecosystem just like any other one on earth. Being it's a pretty new one the typical parasites and viruses that grow in every environment hadn't really developed to fill that ecosystem in the first decade or two of it. Now we are reaching the cambrian explosion of bullshit that the human animal isn't innoculated against.

So yea, the internet is a worse place, but really because the early internet wasn't realistically behaved for the amount of free energy it left around.

	▲	inigyou a day ago \| parent [-]
		You know, we could just put those people in jail if we wanted to. At least when they're traceable - like everyone who uses a phone number or an IP address. They actually do this in Europe,.as a result there aren't many spam calls originating from European numbers.

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grumbel a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Internet deserves some blame too, when you have 8 billion people, but only 4 billion addresses, you are naturally going to end up with a lot of centralized services to work around those limits.

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api a day ago | parent [-]

You’re right but it’s a point I’ve tried to make for years to no avail.

The V4 limit is one thing that does this. The other is DNS, which is inherently hierarchical because it’s a tree. The whole structure of the net and the web promotes the emergence of aggregation points, which then amass insane amounts of largely unearned power and influence through sheer network effect.

“The medium is the message” is a much deeper statement than people think. The structure of the medium and the sympathetic structures it encourages to form around it are the message. IPv4 with NAT and DNS with its real estate model directly encourage the formation of aggregators and siloes and that’s where it starts.

People don’t get it. I’ve given up trying to explain. Systems thinking isn’t as titillating as conspiracism, doomerism, or misanthropic cynicism I guess.

	▲	qznc a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Does not seem convincing to me so far and i like systems thinking. Do you have a link, where you wrote more? I think a fundamental problem is that micropayments don’t work. Instead we pay with attention, i.e. by watching ads. That already worked before the internet, in tv and radio and newspapers.
	▲	inigyou a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		We desperately need to replace ICANN.