Twitter happened. Twitter is a tool that enables mass mobilization of the Extremely Online far beyond the dreams of any late-00s /b/tard, and simultaneously gives those keyboard warriors a direct line to many of the powers that be, including those running a lot of the infrastructure of the Internet. So, yeah, centralization, both of communication platforms and of Internet infrastructure. (4chan was literally run out of a server in moot's basement until he sold it IIRC.)
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Twitter happened. Twitter is a tool that enables mass mobilization of the Extremely Online far beyond the dreams of any late-00s /b/tard, and simultaneously gives those keyboard warriors a direct line to many of the powers that be, including those running a lot of the infrastructure of the Internet. So, yeah, centralization, both of communication platforms and of Internet infrastructure. (4chan was literally run out of a server in moot's basement until he sold it IIRC.)
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