A funny thought came to me recently. What if we thought of the internet as a country? People who came every once in a while would be "visiting", people who came a lot would have a "dual citizenship" with the Internet and their real country, and bots would be citizens of just the interwebs. Discuss what you think about this topic.
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The Internet as a country?
- Thread starter DittoDude
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The internet can not be viewed as a country.
Breeder Drew
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I think that would be the most populated country on Earth, even if it shouldn't be viewed as a country. What, would trolls be the criminals or something like that?
Yeah, and mods would be the police force. Thing is though, there's no set government.
Breeder Drew
Well-Known Member
Would that make Bill Gates the president?
7 tyranitars
Well-Known Member
Breeder Drew
Well-Known Member
Steve Jobs would be Uncle Sam, I guess.
No the founding father.
No no, silly; Al Gore.
Trickster Zorua
AMUSING STARTER FTW
Hmmm...the Goverment is the Staff with Admins. It is a really unique idea...
Korusan
Banned
Wolf Prince
Lycan Seraph
, this means hackers are gods or some sort of powefull beasts.Dread Advocate
†Stay Metal†
An anarchist, possibly even tribalistic, country if you wish to see it that way. YouTube, 4chan, and any other troll-hives are the centers of anarchist activity.
Hackers = The mafia, a lot of them appear to be organized. Or, you could just call them plain old criminals, but it's not like they're a detriment to anyone outside of the bots.
Eternalserenity
Wanderer
I wouldn't go so far as to declare the internet as an actual country (You need land for that), but it is definitely the host of a unique culture.
MissDigitalis
love at first sting
It doesn't really make sense for bots to be citizens of anything.
Eternalserenity
Wanderer
Bots are those annoying infomercials that always find their way onto your TV screen. You don't want to see them and the product they're advertising does not appeal to you.
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Wolf Prince
Lycan Seraph
Schade
Metallic Wonder
If hackers are the mafia then programers and creators of websites are gods
Well, then we have proof God exist
Wolf Prince
Lycan Seraph
i think we passed from internet beeing a contry to making it a religion o.o