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by robotshmobot 1423 days ago
>There's something about the way you phrased this that just made me just realize there's a very real possibility that the internet could turn into television part two.

My friend, we're already there.

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How? I can enter any URL I want and go to any page I want. Anyone can start a website, and I can effortlessly visit it.

Does not seem at all comparable to being locked into what some bosses at a cable/satellite TV/TV channel company decide you have access to, at the time they say you can access it. With no ability to upload.

You can, but will you? Or will you type keywords into a search box and trust a company’s ranking to just land you on the URL?

And if that’s how 99.9% of users are experiencing the internet, how is that not a TV?

5 billion channels and nothing to watch.