> After the past several decades of humanity putting all of its collective
knowledge online, we are seeing more ways to prevent us from accessing it.
This hits so hard, especially for someone who saw the Internet becoming this awesome, huge open library that everyone can access and contribute and then witnessing it being paywalled, drowned with ads and slop, monetized to oblivion, sometimes straight up disappear. It's heartbreaking.
> After the past several decades of humanity putting all of its collective knowledge online, we are seeing more ways to prevent us from accessing it.
This hits so hard, especially for someone who saw the Internet becoming this awesome, huge open library that everyone can access and contribute and then witnessing it being paywalled, drowned with ads and slop, monetized to oblivion, sometimes straight up disappear. It's heartbreaking.