and…i don’t know about these other comments..all i have to say is just shut up and write.

cha cha

Why the FUCK does everybody thinks there comments are lost?! Waiting for moderation perhaps?

Maybe because I wrote a comment, clicked “Submit Comment”, and was brought back to the page without the new comment or a message that it was under moderation?

I guess people are having similar experiences? Or maybe it’s just me :/

Why the FUCK does everybody thinks there comments are lost?! Waiting for moderation perhaps?

It’s this kind of thing, this tiny thing, that gives you an idea of what net neutrality really means– what the web could be to us, tomorrow.

Exactly. The idea of true net neutrality doesn’t just involve the infrastructure of the web, but content as well – geeks tend to forget that.

By standing by and watching as corporations build a series of closed, exclusivist platforms – Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc. – we’re in essence seeing the web become a series of pretty suburban gated communities, where you’re either in or out. This goes against everything we used to believe in, and love about, the Web.

I am locked out of accessing much of my friends’ content; because I happen not to be within these walled communities (in other words, not a customer / client of Facebook, Twitter, etc>)

Now that we’ve allowed large firms to successfully commodify, mediate and monetize our personal relationships, things like “art”, “commentary” and “protest” will follow the same unfortunate path; Facebook closing political groups it deems “offensive”, Flickr and Youtube removing certain questionable content but allowing other questionable content, and – as you illustrated here – myriad other firms picking and choosing what’s appropriate to run on their platforms and services.

We let the private sector start tell us what’s right or wrong in exchange for shiny new toys to play with [and show to members of the opposite sex] ;) … We’re already pretty far gone.