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>Let's build small communities of

And 10 minutes later Texas demands you identify all your users age when someone posts a porn image somewhere. Facebook will gleefully laugh all the way to the court saying we need such internet ID to entrench themselves.

>, in that way the internet will never die.

You mean in the exact way the internet used to be... then died?

I'm guessing your GenX or a Xennial, it's how we think. Relationships and friendships are hard things to acquire and keep and you have to work to do it otherwise friends disappear. The thing is the younger generations mostly don't think that way. They have mostly always lived in a world where connections are cheap and easy to maintain. Attempting to move to a system that is more difficult will be very difficult for them.

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> Attempting to move to a system that is more difficult will be very difficult for them.

That doesn't make it wrong, it just might make the last 20 years a mistake.


Large scale mistakes are very difficult to fix and have entrenched groups to ensure they continue. See: Internal combustion engines, Cigarettes.



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