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On my drive home yesterday I heard a story on NPR about a new bill being debated in Congress that would make websites liable for content posted on their site that promotes or engages in sex trafficking. Some internet lobbyist was mad as hell about how this new law would have made it impossible for "the internet as we know it" to have evolved. The merits of the law notwithstanding, I found myself thinking, "What the fuck is so great about the internet as we know it?"Twitter didn't cause any divides. It gave disparate tribes a place to Thunderdome. It is not a commons that suffered a schism it's a frontier being fought over by ideological homesteaders.