Part of the effort was to control thoughts, hence the burning of books and burying of scholars.
Dead internet, mass tech layoff. Is our world doing the same?
The internet is dead not just because the bots have overwhelmed geninue human thoughts, the harvesting of data for machine consumption and algorithmic curation had caused a Dark Forest situation where entire generation is polarized into either living in fear of having their face and thoughts harvested or actively selling themselves one way or another.
平水相逢, platonic mode of communication like this site, where there is no commerce, no agenda, and you can say no purpose sharing of thoughts just doesn't happen anymore.
Servers cost money to run and maintain, brandwidth has a cost. The system is putting a toll on human communication.
Pay to talk. Per minute charge. Bandwidth limits. Terms of Service. We are taxing our freedom to communicate to death.
Qin Shi Huang managed to kill the scholars to silence them, we learned to make the scholars silence themselves.
18th century painting, artist long dead, we wouldn't upload a car.
Anti-pirating ad music stolen. Tsk tsk tsk.
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