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What if the Internet became its own country?

Last posted May 28, 2014 at 06:53PM EDT. Added May 27, 2014 at 03:47AM EDT
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MF DOOM wrote:

that would be weird internet as an country with google as president

Um, no we would not let google run for president.

>June 1st, 2015
The internet becomes its own country.

>June 2nd, 2015
The internet starts mass producing porn on a wide scale.

>June 8th, 2015
The internet now holds 75% of all market value in the porn industry,

>June 15th, 2015
Hugh Hefner is elected first president of the internet.

>June 16th, 2015
With Hefner's betrayel, the world's porn market shares have plummeted into oblivion, safe for the internet.

>June 21st, 2015
Professional porn stars start mass moving to the internet, swearing loyalty to it and its president.

>June 23rd, 2015
An allience is formed between professional porn stars and hentai.

>June 25th, 2015
The allience of porn has begun mass producing crossover porn featuring all tastes and all types of people.

>June 26th, 2015
Hentai has started travelling around the world, spreading the word of the porn allience.

>June 28th, 2015
The word of porn has reached amateur porn.

>June 30th, 2015
The golden age of porn has started, with all genres co-existing in peace. Under the great banner of united porn, people around the world have finally found a pleasure they all share. World conflicts are solved, and world peace has finally been achieved.


All in a month's work.

Last edited May 27, 2014 at 08:56AM EDT

It would balkanize almost immediately, with 4chan and Reddit attacking each other, Tumblr dissolving into a form of Somalia, and the major search engines launching proxy wars with each other using their subsidiaries (Youtube vs Flickr, Yahoo News vs Google News, etc.).

Intense bickering would pretty much destroy any chance of a great government.

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Last edited May 27, 2014 at 07:32PM EDT

xTSGx wrote:

It would balkanize almost immediately, with 4chan and Reddit attacking each other, Tumblr dissolving into a form of Somalia, and the major search engines launching proxy wars with each other using their subsidiaries (Youtube vs Flickr, Yahoo News vs Google News, etc.).

Hmmm, how do we unite these states?

Cale wrote:

I severely doubt the Internet would be home to any sort of democratic government.

Damn striaght! Le 9gag mask army will keep the anarchy on the internet alive!

There's some ambiguity to how "the Internet" will go about becoming a country, since we haven't even talked about how that will happen

Like who's going to make up the population? Many people world wide use the internet and none of them can live in two places at once, so I say there's going to have to be immigration.

But how many of them will immigrate there? Who will they be? Where would they immigrate?
But the most important question is…

Last edited May 28, 2014 at 04:50PM EDT

NottaWotta wrote:

There's some ambiguity to how "the Internet" will go about becoming a country, since we haven't even talked about how that will happen

Like who's going to make up the population? Many people world wide use the internet and none of them can live in two places at once, so I say there's going to have to be immigration.

But how many of them will immigrate there? Who will they be? Where would they immigrate?
But the most important question is…

When we said "Internet", we meant guys like us. Not common plebs.

Slutty Sam wrote:

KYM would basically be a shack in the corner offering hookers for cheap. Oh yeah, and some database about the entire country no one gives a shit about…

We'd be the CIA though. We could be secret agent man-guys.

Skeletor-sm

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