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There's an evolving morality around the internet that is very, very different from the pseudo-libertarian rule of the jungle I was raised with. Interesting to see things change.

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The evolutionary force is really just "everyone else showed up at the party". The Internet has gone from a capital-I thing that was hard to access, to a little-i internet that was easier to access and well known but still largely distinct from the real world, to now... just the real world in virtual form. Internet morality mirrors real world morality.

For the most part, everybody is participating now, and that brings all of the challenges of any other space with everyone's competing interests colliding - but fewer established systems of governance.

Based on the comments here the polite world of the internet where people obeyed unwritten best practices is certainly over in favour of “grab what you can might makes right”

that was never the internet. the old internet was “information wants to be free, good luck if you want to restrict my access or resharing”

You're very much wrong. Two of the key tennets of libertarianism is that your rights end where my nose begins and the respect of property rights . Your AI bot is causing problems for me, then you should be compensating me for the damage or other expense you caused. But the AI bros think they should be able to take anything they want whenever they want without compensation, and they'll use every single shady behavior they can to make that happen. In other words, they're robber barrons.

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