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I remember being all "omg great the internet will finally free information everything will be awesome" in like 2008.
Then I read some Marxist analysis saying "nope, rather sooner than later the market principles, as the hegemonial/contemporary means of humans organizing themselves, will fuck it up and it will kinda suck lile everything else"
I even remember that feeling of hope: "nah this time they're wrong".
Turns out if you don't change the political economy, shit trickles up into any nice social project.
... also this is why I love niches like reddit (ba dum tss), feddit
lol, what the fuck even is this comment? 2008 the internet was already getting quite fucked. The internet setting information free idealization is all the way back in the 90’s. And I’m no capitalist apologist but communism ain’t gonna make the internet better.
You're probably right I had been a bit behind regarding the discourse about the internet. I was in my early teenage years and just started knowing about it.
And for your second claim: If you define communism the way I usually do (the social principle of coorperating to fulfill everyones needs), it seems likely the internet would be designed towards peoples needs, rather than companies profits. Of course it would still consume ressources to provide cat videos, but the required ressources might be less, since cooperating/sharing ressources is more efficient than competing.