Opinion: Death of the “Old Internet”, Unwelcome at X & Thoughts About YouTube

The past week has been a bit of a roller-coaster for me. If you know me, you know I have plenty of stuff to keep myself busy and plenty of stuff I want to share – if only time and energy would permit. Whenever I can, I’ve spent my time authoring and producing content which I believe to be interesting, different, unique, valuable and of my own efforts (unless where specified, and that’s the exception rather than the rule). But since my recent choice to abstain from OzBargain because of their policies, I noted the link-hostile nature of the internet which is ironic, given that the hyperlink literally was one of the defining concepts of what made the internet what it is by strengthening connections between content and enabling discovery. But it would seem that the hostility didn’t settle. While I was flagged once by Facebook for posting content that was flagged as spam, this quickly cleared. This week, X (formerly Twitter), decided that I wasn’t authentic. Where Did The “Old Internet”…