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That the internet is not a good thing.
Twenty years ago, even some more, the internet was something that brought me hope for humanity: A democratic network of knowledge open to anyone for both participation and access. I truly expected this to improve the lifes of those in less fortunate countries and backgrounds, and help reduce conflicts between people by understanding each other.
Yeah, a bit too much "we are the world", but you read about the pioneers of the internet and this was a shared belief.
Turns out it was like Cyberpunk, but like boring.
Yeah now-a-days the internet is a surveilled corporate hellscape. People in power are trying to make it moreso (age verification, war on encryption, etc).
I remember watching the Arab Spring unfold. Twitter being a guiding light through the darkness for so many people whos government tried to control available communication.
Such high hopes for people back then.
Occupy Wall Street and Me Too, also. I thought we were headed in the right direction. Fast forward... We got this.
This is the final end run of policy and people pushing for it who have been slinking around in the shadows since Ronald Reagan. It's a whole bunch of white paranoia and greed rolled up into a reactionary viewpoint and it's been carefully cultivated for decades.
The one bright point in its implementation, is that the demographic most taken in is the one still dominantly getting it's information from cable TV. And there's a reason that as the demographic ages out and dies, cable TV viewership is falling.
You've got another 25 years or so until the last of the boomers hit their life expectancies. Hang on.
All that has happened with the consolidation of social media into a propaganda arm for governments and corporations makes the fediverse decentralized network an important step forward in the right direction.
If there were another "??? Spring", could the fediverse be a tool for communication central to a movement still remains a question.
How is the Internet not a network of knowledge open to anyone??
It's full of crap, yes. Back then it was just much smaller, but still very much crap-filled.
people eat shit and wonder why it tastes bad
for some reason they never seem to consider they can just...not eat the shit?
since the advent of the printing press, there has always been more media than any one person can consume in a lifetime...if your not filtering the content you consume your doing it wrong
It's more of a billionaire nazi propaganda problem. Imagine if they bought up the newspapers and tv stations and there was literally no alternitive
...they have done that. like 5 ~~people~~ billionaires own the majority of media in the US, radio/news/3 letter networks
But we do have an alternative
That's exactly what happened in Hungary, Slovakia, Russia... terrestrial news stations and papers all have people at the helm that have ties to their government.
I don't think it's much different in the US either.
Still currently in progress but most of the way complete. We’re gonna have a hard time un-fucking it at this stage.
This is where capitalism needs to be leveraged - with a vengeance. Do not ignore that most of the media outlets are commercial in nature, and entirely dependent on advertisers.
All the dystopia, none of the mantis blades.
Social media made the internet not worth it. I had high hopes also but humanity sucks as seen when we are all interconnected with global squares.
Yet here we are, defiant in someone's server in a basement in Germany.
I think the Internet is still a good thing, it's just become so pervasive and ubiquitous that it's easy to ignore when it's not a bad thing. Humans are really good at noticing bad things, which makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. They stand out more starkly against a neutral background.
It is, and people are sharing all the knowledge in the world, in a way that was never possible before.
Just because an AI-driven botnet is flooding it with bogus articles, and mainstream entertainment is full of brain rot, it doesn't mean the internet isn't incredibly useful, to the point that many people would struggle with daily life without it.