Better than the blockade in Gaza and the apartheid system in the West Bank they've been living under for the last decades.

I don't think it would be a model in terms of human rights, doesn't make Israel's actions any better.

https://themarkup.org/ maybe? At least that is what they claim to be doing.

Nothing of course. I post stories about KOSA in order to make people aware what's happening about it.

naturally given that the Torah is part of the Bible

I think those are only different spellings because of transliteration and are spelled the same in Arabic script.

Forums. I found forums the most engaging, interesting structure for "social media" that has ever been invented. I actually tended to get to know the people on them over time.

I have no idea why we ditched that structure in favor of "platforms".

2004: The Internet is going to lead us into a utopian future of free communication and access to information! No government will ever be able to censor information anymore because they will lack legal reach to censor everything!

2024:

That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about biology to dispute it

And by now we have so many worse threats to free communication on the Internet than the copyright industry, yet the Internet is nowhere near as united against any of them as in 2012. On the contrary, everyone now calls for censorship of the other side's "misinformation", "hate speech", content "harmful to minors", etc etc.

At some point this has to be counterproductive to their profits. When YouTube had way fewer and shorter ads than now, I spent a lot more of my time there than I do now. They literally drove my eyeballs away by showing too many ads.

The movement for free and open source software has not achieved a world in which most people use only FOSS. But it has achieved a world where there is a lot of diversity in technology, including many Android smartphone brands you haven't heard of.

I didn't frequently post new threads on reddit either. The great thing about the structure of reddit and Lemmy (as opposed to that of e.g. Twitter/Mastodon) is you don't really need to have your own ideas what to post, you can look at what others have posted and then react to that by adding your thoughts. But of course if everybody did only that, then there wouldn't be anything to react to, and that may be kinda the problem right now.