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0 pointsfoxglacier5d ago0 comments

That's the same attitude as "cheap airfares caused too many tourists which ruined my favorite tourist destination". You're unhappy that more people have access to it and wish it was still exclusive to the small group you conveniently belong to. Capitalism is what made the internet available to the general public.

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phainopepla25d ago

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.

suburban_strike5d ago

> 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.

foxglacierOP5d ago

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.

dhosek5d ago

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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