Comment by Jepacor

> > One thing I've wound up feeling from all this is that the current web is surprisingly fragile. A significant amount of the web seems to have been held up by implicit understandings and bargains, not by technology.

This is something I've been pondering, and honestly I feel like the author doesn't go far enough. I would go as far as to say a lot of our modern society has been held up by these implicit social contracts. But nowadays we see things like gerrymandering in the US, or overusing the 49-3 in France to pass laws despite the parliament voting against them. Just an overall trend of only feeling constrained by the exact letter of the law and ignoring the spirit of it.

Except it turns out these implicit understandings that you shouldn't do that existed because breaking them makes life shittier for everyone, and that's what we're experiencing now.