alt Hacker NewsOn the one hand, I would tend to agree that making things painful enough might force people to stop ignoring and improve things. On the other, after seeing waves hands at everything since 2016 makes me very skeptical of accelerationism: sometimes things just get worse and worse, there's no bottom to bounce from. Or maybe we just never really hit rock bottom?
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Well, this very article is describing how popular outrage in Spain is forcing the legislature to take action against La Liga.
(Yes, the action described in the article is explictly not legally binding. That was also true of the Brexit vote.)
Eventually, some apparatchik will try to access pornhub during a sports match and fail, it'll resolve the issue quickly
The bottom is just so much farther down than we remember. Tremendous progress was made in the 20th century, particularly in the aftermath of WWII, and we've kind of just been coasting on it for 50 years.
Accelerationism was always a terrible idea.
Given much of the internet today, I'm not sure if a pan-EU level blocklist on all of cloudflare (damaging as that would be) would even be worse than the status-quo, let alone rock bottom.