This thread of Brooke Bolander’s is really good.

I think most people have forgotten that web, but it was around from roughly 1994-2005 or so. It was vastly superior and so much richer and more fun. Corporations have obliterated it all; almost nothing now remains. I don’t have a formal name for this new era just yet, but we are now in the phase where central control over information is being aggressively re-asserted, where unauthorized channels of communication and organizing are being shuttered for “hate speech” and “porn” and other usually-bogus bugaboos, and where liberals are eager to tell you this is all “for your own good.”

It’s going to get worse, too, since both sides are all for it: libs for “protection from harm” pretenses and conservatives for “immorality” excuses and the like. All, of course, with corporations really controlling the marionette as both sides eagerly dance to the tunes Facebook, Google, Amazon, et al., are playing.

Like Brooke, I miss that old web. It was so much more whole and joyous and quirky and free.