Forty three years ago I was in my first computer science class with a ‘personal’ computer. Computers and later the internet held so much promise. I wish I still felt the same about them but it seems every technology is used for one of two things: kill people more efficiently or create & distribute porn. So much potential and yet it gets used for crap more often than not.
counterpoint: nowadays i can share public transport memes with gay nerds on the other side of the world from a device the size of my hand, precisely whenever the fuck i want to, even if i’m in the middle fo a god damn forest.
Exactly! Making nonconsensual porn of people is fucked up in today’s culture and the industry will often exploit workers, but porn itself is based actually.
Tell me about it. How I long for the days of MySpace and Napster and the fun little hobbyist websites of the 90s, when windows was just an innocent little OS. Now we have Meta/Google/Amazon and that’s pretty much the whole internet and it’s watching you ALL THE TIME.
Forty three years ago I was in my first computer science class with a ‘personal’ computer. Computers and later the internet held so much promise. I wish I still felt the same about them but it seems every technology is used for one of two things: kill people more efficiently or create & distribute porn. So much potential and yet it gets used for crap more often than not.
counterpoint: nowadays i can share public transport memes with gay nerds on the other side of the world from a device the size of my hand, precisely whenever the fuck i want to, even if i’m in the middle fo a god damn forest.
I don’t have an issue with porn. It’s a perfectly useful part of technology. It doesn’t hurt anyone.
What’s in the OP isn’t though.
Exactly! Making nonconsensual porn of people is fucked up in today’s culture and the industry will often exploit workers, but porn itself is based actually.
Making nonconsensual porn of people is fucked up no matter the culture or time, I’d say
I do agree that consensual porn is more than welcome though. Allowing people to express their sexuality is healthy
And ads, don’t forget about the ads.
Capitalism, baby!
Tell me about it. How I long for the days of MySpace and Napster and the fun little hobbyist websites of the 90s, when windows was just an innocent little OS. Now we have Meta/Google/Amazon and that’s pretty much the whole internet and it’s watching you ALL THE TIME.