I’m tired of the libertarian culture on the internet (opens in new tab)
The internet has always had libertarianism as its underlying ideology, or at least for a very long time. It was declared in various manifestos — and for some observers, it was painfully clear where the ideology was guiding the internet. In this essay I want to talk about specifically the cultural aspect of this ideology, and how it affects my experience of the internet. (sidenote: There might have been many ideologies in the beginning, but this one is the one that won out. )
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