Religious warfare and a double twitter meta
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The internet is just a communications medium. Your issue is with humanity.
A section of humanity? Maybe.
I’m not that misanthropic. I just know stupid shit when I see it.
Prior to the internet, this shit simply would not be an issue, because retards like in this image didn’t have a medium to spout their ignorance and stupidity to such a wide audience. So no, frankly, I disagree.
The internet is not just a medium. It contributes greatly to the division and spread of bullshit that we so often see.
I genuinely believe it is a net negative for humanity. You can disagree, but fundamentally… I do think that this “communications medium” will be the end of us, smh…
"The digital revolution and and its' consequences have been a disaster for the human race."
I will say that the smartphone is the worst invention in history. People do not need, and should not have, that sort of communication available to them at all times.
If you want to be terminally online then sit at your PC all day (like me).
You do make a point, however, the internet also spreads truth. I've developed many skills and educated myself about the true state of the world through the internet. Without it, we'd only have corporate media.
Oh undeniably so. We wouldn’t be having this conversation, of course, without it.
But you’re forgetting that things like community media exist. Sure, “street press” and “zines” tend to have a rather frustrating political bent, but they’re still a thing.
And phones, texts, mail, hell, even email and forums existed before the internet became the bloated hell it is today…
I don’t necessarily hate the concept of the medium that allows, say, sites like this to exist. I hate the fact that in its current forum it has completely erased not only entire segments of life, entire functionalities (see below), but also a lot of that… “Early internet”. The good stuff is largely gone. Even before they killed Flash, it was disappearing faster than I had any idea of…
Frankly, I don’t much like what is left, lol.
A lot of this is down to the dominance of the monolithic three (Apple, Facebook, Google), but there’s clearly more happening than just that…
Its not really the internet per se so much as smartphones and social media. That allowed everyone's stupid opinions to be put on full display for the world to see.
Sounds like an awful lot like what used to be said about TV, Radio and Newspapper. If only you could choose what you consume...
Nah, I'm with bamboozler on this one.