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If I woke up tomorrow and breathed all the oxygen, nobody else could breathe. But If I woke up tomorrow and read all the websites on the internet, it wouldn't stop other people from reading them too.

Air is zero-sum. Knowledge is not.




> But If I woke up tomorrow and read all the websites on the internet, it wouldn't stop other people from reading them too.

If you became the first line, go-to source for the information of those websites, those websites would stop getting click-throughs. Eventually it would become less and less worthwhile (economically or emotionally) for the people keeping those sites running to keep them running. It would become more and more difficult for people to find those sites even if they are running, or even the archives of those sites.

So yes, eventually you'd stop people from reading them too.




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