This whole mindset of sheltering people from opposition is really the root of the problem. It's just going to get worse too. Kids grow up in the subverted walled garden internet from birth now. People need to be exposed to different opinions and different levels of crazy so they learn to discern things for themselves. If I had to guess a lot of us on this site are a tiny bit older and were the 12 year olds going on to the internet before it was infested with "safe" social media and you had no idea what sort of crazy stuff you'd come across at times. From that experience, you learn.
Anyone who tells me to avoid interaction or discussion with someone I immediately assume has an agenda to push. If you are so certain in your knowledge, let them go hear other viewpoints then argue them. The only reason not to is if you're afraid it will discredit you.
Yeah, I know. People that think for themselves threaten the power of those that want to think for them.
Encyclopedia Dramatica was a thing already when I got access to Internet in my early teens. Fuck this "make the Internet a safe space for kids" manipulative bullshit. The rules were simple : don't share your real name or where you live online. Don't give credit info to shady places. The slightest doubt = Install nothing as to avoid malware/spywares. It's not complicated. Yes kids will see boobs. Boo-hoo get over it.
But Megacorps just have to agressively try to make the Internet conform to their real-ID-tied controlled products.
Now kids tell their whole life in the open, and the place where bullied kids could catch a break from HS drama is now permanent HS drama where the IRL bubble overlaps.
I was still a massively left-wing bleeding heart despite lol-ing at the gore, trash and un-PC humour over there. Leftists need to give-up the retarded moral panic around jokes and their compulsion to suffocate kids in their ideological warded garden hoping they can never think outside their box.
Except at the time, Leftists were in favor of freedom of expression. I didn't leave the Left as much as the Left went batshit insane.
I didn't leave the Left as much as the Left went batshit insane.
There's a ton of truth to that. I always leaned right myself but only slightly. Now the left sees me as pretty much a far right nut-job because I want heinous things like free speech.
I'm also apparently more of an old fart than I thought. When I first got the Internet, Google was not yet a thing.
When I first got the Internet, Google was not yet a thing.
Old Internet Farts Unite! I can still recall the days when at the bottom of Yahoo!'s search page it said "Powered by Google", and before that I had the fun of dealing with a running a UNIX terminal emulator on a PC on my university's network to connect to the larger university that actually housed the system. I experienced the Eternal September, and quite honestly the Internet has been worse for wear ever since.
This whole mindset of sheltering people from opposition is really the root of the problem. It's just going to get worse too. Kids grow up in the subverted walled garden internet from birth now. People need to be exposed to different opinions and different levels of crazy so they learn to discern things for themselves. If I had to guess a lot of us on this site are a tiny bit older and were the 12 year olds going on to the internet before it was infested with "safe" social media and you had no idea what sort of crazy stuff you'd come across at times. From that experience, you learn.
Anyone who tells me to avoid interaction or discussion with someone I immediately assume has an agenda to push. If you are so certain in your knowledge, let them go hear other viewpoints then argue them. The only reason not to is if you're afraid it will discredit you.
Yeah, I know. People that think for themselves threaten the power of those that want to think for them.
Encyclopedia Dramatica was a thing already when I got access to Internet in my early teens. Fuck this "make the Internet a safe space for kids" manipulative bullshit. The rules were simple : don't share your real name or where you live online. Don't give credit info to shady places. The slightest doubt = Install nothing as to avoid malware/spywares. It's not complicated. Yes kids will see boobs. Boo-hoo get over it.
But Megacorps just have to agressively try to make the Internet conform to their real-ID-tied controlled products.
Now kids tell their whole life in the open, and the place where bullied kids could catch a break from HS drama is now permanent HS drama where the IRL bubble overlaps.
I was still a massively left-wing bleeding heart despite lol-ing at the gore, trash and un-PC humour over there. Leftists need to give-up the retarded moral panic around jokes and their compulsion to suffocate kids in their ideological warded garden hoping they can never think outside their box.
Except at the time, Leftists were in favor of freedom of expression. I didn't leave the Left as much as the Left went batshit insane.
There's a ton of truth to that. I always leaned right myself but only slightly. Now the left sees me as pretty much a far right nut-job because I want heinous things like free speech.
I'm also apparently more of an old fart than I thought. When I first got the Internet, Google was not yet a thing.
Old Internet Farts Unite! I can still recall the days when at the bottom of Yahoo!'s search page it said "Powered by Google", and before that I had the fun of dealing with a running a UNIX terminal emulator on a PC on my university's network to connect to the larger university that actually housed the system. I experienced the Eternal September, and quite honestly the Internet has been worse for wear ever since.
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