As a consumer of publications, I am limited by the centralization of discovery mechanisms, to only see what big companies want to show me.
It becomes a bigger problem when they choose to show different people disjoint information. Eg. Somebody could plan and attempt a coup without me hearing about it till after the fact, even though they conspired quite openly
Can't really "Run your own website" without filtering out the unsafe hosts.
If you don't march to the beat of the drum, then Google, AWS, GoDaddy, MicroSoft, likely CloudFlare, IBM, etc will shut you down with little to no notice. & they're big enough to pressure others to do the same.
Thus, an underground web is needed for actual discourse.
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I'd rephrase amplification as discovery.
As a consumer of publications, I am limited by the centralization of discovery mechanisms, to only see what big companies want to show me.
It becomes a bigger problem when they choose to show different people disjoint information. Eg. Somebody could plan and attempt a coup without me hearing about it till after the fact, even though they conspired quite openly
Yes 8note, exactly.
Can't really "Run your own website" without filtering out the unsafe hosts. If you don't march to the beat of the drum, then Google, AWS, GoDaddy, MicroSoft, likely CloudFlare, IBM, etc will shut you down with little to no notice. & they're big enough to pressure others to do the same.
Thus, an underground web is needed for actual discourse.