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		rightbyte on June 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and ful... Google, Facebook, Reddit etc are the tower though. Not the WWW.

pessimizer on June 14, 2023 [–]

No, Google, Facebook, and Reddit are the languages spoken on the WWW that annihilated all the others. Then God comes down and breaks them up. The Tower of Babel was the original silo.

rightbyte on June 15, 2023 | [–]

Google et al. are God's punishment of our hubris? I would rather say Google is the hubris.

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