The vast majority of people use the internet to do banking and mail but slightly faster, and watch shitty slop on Netflix or whatever
Social media is a pyramid scheme to defraud marketing agencies using inflated numbers and making people talk about nonsense
None of it is particularly necessary to the functioning of modern capitalism like it's made out to be, and a lot of the infrastructure relies on increasing monopolization i.e. Cloudflare and Google/Alphabet buying up IP addresses and backbone networks which will probably easily collapse during a financial recession just like what happened when the dot-com bubble popped
>>20172>buying up IP addressesyou baka-ass uygha, how many IPV6 addresses do you think there are?
You are right about centralization, though. The ongoing attacks against sites like Kiwi Farms shows how fragile the whole system actually is, and how easily you can be deplatformed by even one link in the chain breaking down.
>>20173What is the current form of capitalism?
>>20174>Kiwi FarmsEven more worthless than the examples listed in OP
>>20177>Even more worthless than the examples listed in OPAbsolutely, but *that's how rightoids view us.*
It's like you forget that weapons can be turned against you or something.
>>20185>IPv6Literally no one uses these, and it doesn't solve the economic problem anyways
>>20187There are much better things for financial capitalists to invest in than the internet
>>20192it's steadily increasing, and sometimes translating to/from IPv6 happens automagically
you might be using IPv6 without even knowing
>>20181>Sure, but this website is a massive exception that proves the rule.That's not the idiom you're looking for.
Exceptions don't prove rules holy shit you'd better be high when you typed that.
>>20192>>IPv6>Literally no one uses these,Many /leftypol/ users do. It's especially common for mobile phone users.
>>20190thisx10
But to make something interesting out of the thread:
Cybercrime, or cyberwarfare, can be devastating. There is critical net infrastructure being maintained by one or two volunteers. Even non-malicious acts have taken down hundreds and thousands of services, imagine what someone malicious like a state-sponsored actor could do.
>>20198Hmm, should I try to navigate a shitty tagging system with spotty availability and no idea if I'm gonna get malware'd so I can upload them onto my $200 Amazon gadget, or should I just walk over to a fucking public library?
>>20199Irrelevant
>>20204Here, let me illustrate it for you
Read this thread >>>/siberia/415011
Now tell me whether or not you think the people who made the posts in that thread are the most alienated, degraded, set-aside dregs of industrial capitalism
>>20204I mean, he is kinda right.
This place IS overrun by incels, edgelords, and schizos, and the only reason any of us stay here is because the anglophonic internet left is such a dire fucking place right now that's been hijacked by insufferable idealist PMC radlibs (much like the actual core left in meatspace)
>>20208 (me)
Also if you're using a kindle specifically and not a generic e-reader, you're gonna have to convert epub to either mobi or azw3
>>20205>>20208>>20209I would still much rather check out a book from a public library
There's really not very much that online commons resources like libgen have that a well-funded urban library system doesn't have
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