Religious warfare and a double twitter meta
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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.