Your smartphone theory is pretty on the mark. It was a mix of giving every retard internet access and retard proofing all internet capable devices. Back in the day you needed a desktop to get online and you needed to be at least somewhat tech literate to deal with how wonky computers could be back then. The effect was gatekeeping based on IQ and interest in tech which put a floor on the quality of internet users. That floor was blown up between 2005 and 2010, although most places remained usable until around 2014. What made it worse was the rise of social media and the resulting centralization of conversations. That was the real death knell for the old Internet, because the tranny jannies only had to infiltrate around half a dozen platforms to control the discourse. Explaining how the internet essentially caused the tranny problem and thus created armies of tranny jannies would require its own post.
Your smartphone theory is pretty on the mark. It was a mix of giving every retard internet access and retard proofing all internet capable devices. Back in the day you needed a desktop to get online and you needed to be at least somewhat tech literate to deal with how wonky computers could be back then. The effect was gatekeeping based on IQ and interest in tech which put a floor on the quality of internet users. That floor was blown up between 2005 and 2010, although most places remained usable until around 2014. What made it worse was the rise of social media and the resulting centralization of conversations. That was the real death knell for the old Internet, because the tranny jannies only had to infiltrate around half a dozen platforms to control the discourse. Explaining how the internet essentially caused the tranny problem and thus created armies of tranny jannies would require its own post.