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Governments are ruining the internet to protect kids but there is a much better way
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this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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I would argue that started happening the moment they got online. The dot com crash didn’t happened for nothing.
The dot com crash was idiot VC money trying to open, mymonkeyshit.com.
The internet was a blast in the 90s until about 2015.
Some of it was VC money, but quite a bit of it was the exact same thing that happened when the App Store became popular. People were going out of their way to try to create things that would be bought out by larger companies.
I was around in the 2000s when YouTube got bought by Google. I don’t disagree that the Internet used to be a blast, but I do disagree that corporate interests weren’t already fucking it up and going into overdrive by the end of the 90s.