YouTube Has Alex Winter Worried About the 2024 Election | Teen Vogue

Director Alex Winter has been online for a long time. Describing the internet communities he joined in the 1980s – while he was also starring in classics like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure; he eventually left acting – to Teen Vogue, Winter says, “The seeds of what we have now were there, almost all of it: The division; what we call incels now; even the anonymous users in the beginning of cryptocurrency, all of that was there in the 80s. It was really clear to me that it was going to have giant implications, but it was unclear what those were at that point.”Winter went on to make his first documentary about the free music sharing platform Napster, which existed in the late nineties into the early 2000s, and how its democratizing premise led to a battle over the possibility of the internet. Napster’s scale was what drew Winter to it; he didn’t need it for the music, he says, he was instead “embracing community” with hundreds of thousands of other users. He credits that internet wave with “the complete change of media distribution, which has led all the way to the labor strike we’re currently at.”When he decided to
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