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i dont wanna leave the internet because it used to be OUR spot (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by opiumfree@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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there used to be a time where the internet was a space space not corrupted by endless ads and evil individuals EVERYWHERE. sure you had some bad people here and there but they mostly kept to themselves. this was an underrated part of pre pandemic internet: we would mind our own business and we would know not to go in certain places.

i feel like they use the internet to push out of public life. if youre a woman, black, disabled, ugly etc. you have no space in the machine that can help you access all of history, where you can debunk what your capitalist government tells you, where you can find a community, art and so much more.

why should we leave? we were here first. why do we have to give this up to them ??

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[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The original internet was made by University students and professors to connect with each other. Than the government assigned DARPA/ARPA to build the huge infrastructure that Bill Clinton administration sold to private Telecommunications corporations.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which universities?

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Originally it was UCLA, Stanford, UoU, UCSB.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

That's right.