It was always a web.

The nature of the beast, you always had to dig and search the best stuff on the net and it's no different now

There's levels the this shit, obviously the best stuff isn't on the surface

Search engines have always showed a limit of 50 pages of results, even when they say "1 million results found." The illusion of abundance & freedom. Trust the Plan.

Lol good luck winning the popular vote with no opinion to popularize - Sincerely, Justice

It started way back. I got particularly annoyed when I found a full text book online and they had managed to take out an entire chapter. It made me realize the dangers of trusting the internet for research purposes at the same time as they were promoting google scholar. Some of the censorship and rewriting or dumbing down of world history and events is so absurd that I’m not sure if its supposed to draw attention to how bad censorship is and provoke people to take action.

Read 1984 and understand there is a progression.

Maybe we should setup our own internet? Kickstart it then make it free for everyone right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0u6nvcTsI

You can host your own website on your own computer with your own IP address, without paying a single dime.

The question is, are people going to come to your site? or are they going to keep flocking to Conde Nast and Google affiliates?

This is true, but what if your ISP gets flack for providing a means for you to host your content, they could probably shut you off just as easy as a content hosting site right?

Maybe we could have a cultural revolution and take the internet back into our hands. As it should be. No oversight whatsoever!

The government is supposed to work us.

The internet is a series of interconnected networks (hence the name). These networks are owned by a group of private, often international, companies. How do you propose you “take it back”?

Initially the internet was free. If we could manage a fund to cover the costs of the fiber and other needed service it would be possible. It would be costly initially but, worth it.

Freedom of speech and information are worth it!

Kickstart it then make it free for everyone right?

Yeah because it’s totally free to operate a global high speed network. Hint: it’s insanely expensive.

Some corporation can do it but we the people can't? You know who make up corporations right? Not all of them are ISPs.

I think where one form of language or mode of communication fails, another will arise.

It sucks it has to be that way, but maybe its good? Maybe we will see a new site for people who want it straight, with a more reasonable filter? Indie Journalists who go directly into the fire with their cameras on a regular basis? People publishing their works on hard copies so that no matter what it will survive rather than being taken down from other sources?

Dear citizen (score: 86), please do not be alarmed. The government is here to help.

I just noticed today that when I search Google for "reddit conspiracy" I cant find a link to this sub. I looked up to page 5, nothing.

I'm on a Chromebook. A google search ("reddit conspiracy") didn't list this sub even up to page 10 (I stopped looking after that). But on 1st page of google search results, there are three other subreddits with "conspiracy" in their names: finlandconspiracy, trueconspiracy, and conspiracyfact.

I then went to DuckDuckGo search engine and typed in "reddit conspiracy", the first hit on the search results is this sub.

Weird.

not just reddit conspiracy, but a lot of conspiracy sitesi are either hidden or moved many pages back.

It’s almost as if people should stop using google.

What should we use instead?

Search r/conspiracy.

I always find whatever sub I want with the r/ trick

The full redit thing doesn't work that well anymore.tomfind any suggestions. Internet searches an what they used to be.

All sponsored content unless you manipulate it right now.

YouTube deleted clips of George Carlin taking about why politically speech is really racism with manners. Yea things are certainly different now.

Did things use to be better?

Melancholy and nostalgia from our youth would tend to make most of us older folks say yes. But a quick trip through memories of headlines and news reports will make that idea crumble. The truth is that things are always better or worse in different aspects to anything you’re comparing against. Were things better before? Sure. In some ways. They were also worse in others.

Woosh

And that’s why they invented “/s”

It's not sarcasm it's a quote from 1984

That’s what “ is for.

Oh yeah YouTube conspiracies have been pretty well scrubbed. They make it damn near impossible to find conspiracies based on a current event since I around the Parkland shooting. They don't care what you actually wanted to search for, they will feed you the mainstream propaganda. We need to invest in alternatives

Anything interesting has that stupid block on it now t scare the plebs

I remember going online for the first time back in ‘93. I went to a friend’s house with the only motivation being ordering a Slackware Linux CD/book from a website I’d seen advertised in Byte magazine. After the order was submitted, friend said I should check out the chats. It was IRC in this case. I ended up in a random chat room with people from all over the world and in less than two hours I had made a personal connection with a girl from NC who later became a friend and we met in person a few times. I was amazed at the level of connectivity and the potential to bring people together. I never expected things to end up where we are today. The social media platforms have turned what should’ve been (in theory) a unifying tech into a literal battlefield. I mean, people’s lives and families being completely ruined because they posted something someone somewhere didn’t agree with or, worse, because of their political leanings. Fucking disgusting.

idk what to even say but holy shit i feel this 100% :(

Plenty of sites that are not censored. Stop following the top 10 websites and you'll see.

Is everythings a rich mans trick not a credible video?

Thank you i couldnt tell from the original post whether OP was discrediting it or not

idk what to even say but holy shit i feel this 100% :(