Alright, stop talking about the internet as if it has a mind of its own, the damn thing does not. It has no emotions, no irrational thinking or reactions, nothing of the sort. You need to blame the person/group that caused the issue, and thankfully Kulwin gives fifteen very simple and easy steps on how to do so.
In the article titled "The Internet Apologizes," Noah Kulwin cleverly explains how and why the internet went wrong in fifteen simplified steps. Using this layout instead of a long and blunt essay, Kulwin was easily able to elaborate on the timeline of the internet: from the beginning of internet, why, and how it was created, all the way to what it is now. This entire article isn't truly an apology, instead it is an explanation of how the internet came to be.
This article starts off by Kulwin describing the people credited as creators of the internet, then continues to explain his first step titled "Start With Hippie Good Intentions …" When reading this title, an average reader may imagine a man with long hair at a desk smiling at a computer (which was the picture Kulwin posted under that title), knowing it has potential to help the world. For example, end starvation (its a stupid example but you don't know what they were thinking back then). The next step involves capitalism. From this point on, a well educated person knows that hell is going to break loose when CAPITALISM is the subject. Capitalism is purely competitive, and with competition comes cheating. In this case, cheating may be to break laws or invade privacy, but people who compete in this economy are mot stupid. They know what they are doing is wrong, but they will find a way to back their butt up with some good legal facts and get away with it.
After Kulwin's second step, steps three to fifteen reek "capitalism." Leaders and powerful men get involved for their own benefits, companies try to get a piece, and hackers prepare their position in the world of technology.
When I first read this article, I was filled with satisfaction. The internet is such a complex issue, yet Noah Kulwin executed an ornate explanation that I tend to struggle when explaining. People view the internet as an entity with no creator, this leads to opinions based off idiotic ideas. Kulwin thankfully explains that it's the people who got involved, not the internet itself, that caused the issue.
This article did not make me think of any question. I am going to look back to Kulwin's article in order to explain to someone if I get into an argument about the internet
-Michael Haroon
I'm super late on this but this post is so ignorant that i feel like i have to say something. First off, you back up your assessment that it's the creator of the internet's fault, and use a "15 step process" to try and bolster your point, but then proceed to dismiss 13 of these 15 steps as "capitalistic"?
ReplyDeleteNot only that, but what even is your point? I understand your whole ideology of "our fate was sealed from the start so these people are responsible", but saying "we as humans have no dominion over the growth and snowball effect of the internet" is ignorant. You said this in the exact same paragraph that you made the point that the internet has "no damn mind of it's own.
Your entire argument falls apart with the single thought of "what if every human stopped using the internet?" Sure, some part of the blame falls on the shoulders of the founding fathers of the internet, but blaming these creators solely is moronic at best. It's like blaming the creator of dynamite for causing every single death with explosives ever created, it's just not fair at all.
I find it funny that you underhandedly called everyone with different opinions "idiotic" when your point is so sloppily put together to hit the blog deadline, to the point that it's laughable. Everything in this post is objectively incorrect and that's all there is to it.