• hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.worldOP
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    Those websites are highly capitalistic and never brought any innovation, all technologies related to the internet were researched by public money.

    Look into patent trolls. Patents are bad, publicly funded research is always better, but it doesn’t prevent people from spending money to do research, but it doesn’t entitle them for the profits.

    I’m not advocating FOR communism, I’m just trying to dispel myths.

    Socialism is soluble with capitalism.

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      Never brought any innovation? VP9, AV1, zstd, GraphQL, React, and many more were made/contributed to by Google/Facebook specifically to improve those services. We benefit from this as they release these programs/formats.

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          They’re improvements on existing things, which is the basis for pretty much all research. A nuclear reactor is just an “alternative” to a coal power plant, but I’m sure everyone here would agree that the nuclear power plant is better. In the case of the video formats, image/video processing is literally part of computer science.

          In the case of React, you could follow the breadcrumbs back to JavaScript, created by a capitalistic company.