Before you get too pissed, there's still the respect of calling you "media" in there. You're one of my daily reads.
But if you really care that much about this random opinion, you seem to have a fairly rosey view of the modern internet and what it has become, imo, with too much assumption that this is the only way it could have gone or should have gone.
Yes, 230 is fundamental to everything, and maybe that is not the self-evident win that you and Jack think it is. Look around.