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The idea of the Internet: interconnecting people, free exchange of ideas and access to information, is fantastic.

The actual implementation of the Internet: crass marketing machine, echo-chamber reinforcing bad ideas and relentless misinformation, is the direct result of capitalism: profits before people (the driving engine of capitalism regardless of what they say).

Everything decent gets monetized, degrading everything to the lowest common level that ensures that money gets spent.
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I believe that's overly pessimistic, and I have waded in the cesspool of insane Intarwebz users for several hundred years already.

You're right that the technology is horribly abused in new and exciting ways every dang day.

But the best of humanity is on the Internet, too. Maybe we need to make more of a conscious effort to find those people.

This site right here is an oasis of sanity in a world of cray-cray. It proves my point. :smoking:
Out from under. :thumbsup:
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Foggy wrote: Sun Nov 21, 2021 9:13 am
This site right here is an oasis of sanity in a world of cray-cray. It proves my point. :smoking:
Can't really argue with that, with the minor exception that I'm not a criminal for owning an "AR style" firearm. Otherwise this most certainly is a safe harbor containing sanity where little is found any where else.
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