For real. I used think that society really suffered from a fractured media ecosystem compared to the monolithic pre-internet media era until I learned about how the US gov used the media to sway public opinion on invading Iraq back in 2003.

I don’t know if the current media environment is better than what we had then, but it’s pretty foolish to think that it’s automatically worse based on US foreign policy going back the last 50 years alone.

> Let's put the blame where it belongs. Monopolistic companies destroyed the internet.

This is also true for more than just the internet.

True, and I trust then that we look toward what actually fixes this, which is (boring) regulation and anti-trust work.

It's been done before, time to revamp for a new generation.

>> Illegitimate knockoffs would be less of an issue if you had to go to independent websites to find them.

There's tons of counterfeit stuff on Amazon. I'm at the point now where I avoid Amazon because the last five things I bought there were all counterfeit and the products were not limited to one industry. They were across areas you wouldn't think you'd counterfeit stuff.

90s Geocities sites never looked that clean.

I quite like it, really fitting for the topic too

Ngl, I had a split second of "oh damn did I just pick up a url hijacker somewhere?" Especially with awkward gifs at the bottom.

That's not garish.

This is garish: https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/

This CSS is specific to the article. Not the same across the site.

Probably a matter of taste. I like it, it’s clean.