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Same thing goes for the "porn bans will destroy the internet" posts:
One day it will happen and a few countries will do this, ban adblock or require ID for porn. But I am not so certain it's a bad thing for us technically savvy people. Tor, i2p and such will get a huge influx of people. Totally new cultures will form there. It will be exciting. I will not NOT block advertising and I think many will do the same. So even if that's going to be illegal, it will either not be enforced (that would be bad) or it will lead to people finding a different place in the internet that advertising hasn't reached yet :)
people won't actively seek to break the law just because something sucks. if that was the case we wouldn't have things like facebook or twitter or tiktok.
The statement doesn't follow. Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok have nothing to do with people's willingness to break laws. Those platforms are popular because people want what they offer.
the absolute volume of people who complain daily about how shit facebook groups are for organizing community information and discussion is radical. most of my hobby associations moved to fb groups from traditional forums and now they are dying partly because there is no longer any meaningful discussions due to facebook structure and partly because people are joining there instead of a membership, and partly because facebook decided to kill all animal based hobbies around 3 years ago just as they had all migrated to the platform. and STILL people won't move to a new one. the hobbies are literally dying because the hobby activity is banned on facebook and its STIlL there. because the platform literally can't supply that which it needs while also profiting from the flow algorithms. but do you see anyone switching? nope. they are doubling down on using the wrong tool for the task and it's even growing in users because it just happens to be where the users are. it's a catch-22. if there was a mass migrate to a superior platform people would switch in a heartbeat because there is a mass migration to a superior platform.