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By the internet you mean social media?
The Internet is not a place. It doesn't have weather or climate. It doesn't have AQI. It has no life. It is not a destination or someplace you can go to.
The Internet provides a means of communication. As usual, capitalism and awful people use it to facilitate their twisted, greedy, and hateful purposes.
Which is obvious. Once given to the public that was an an obvious direction to go. Even when I was a kid I was aware of neo-nazi sites as far back as the very early 90's. What I wasn't aware of was loving, welcoming places. Hate finds a way to move faster and fill in gaps better than love. Like if hate is water, love is jello.
You are talking about a piece of the internet. The commercial one.... Not the rest
You're talking only about the world wide web, not the internet. Unless you want to go back to snail mail and phone switchboard operators for global communication.
I don't want any communication to be honest. I get just as much junk mail irl as I do in email. I only recently stopped getting 5 calls a day from scammers because I assume they got busted. I don't even want switchboards. I want to be left the fuck alone.
Rule 6. Please provide with some reasons.
Rule 6? I'm here for the rule 34!
........oh, I guess I just became your source of rule 6.
Just explain why you want rule 34. 🤷♂️
I mean......do I need more of an explaination besides "Boobs"?
Sorry, I missed that one. Please give me a few moments to update the post body.
The Internet has arguably saved now lives than it's taken. You have to remember the Internet is also the backbone that hospitals and researchers use to share data and research. social media and bad/malicious journalism has had a terribly negative effect, but that's a subset of the entire Internet. It's like saying electricity is bad because it provides am infrastructure for bad things to happen, placing the blame on the infrastructure rather the individuals (or corporations) that are doing the bad thing.
Pro: All the world's knowledge and information in the palm of your hand.
Con: Set up like a disorganized library, requiring a basic foundation of intelligence, education, wisdom, and skepticism to know how to find and then parse good info from bad.
Pro: Has facilitated sharing of vital knowledge between experts and laymen.
Con: Has allowed idiots, statistically few and far between scattered across the world, to unionize.
Dunno how unpopular that opinion is, because it's becoming more and more factually correct each day. Hell, actual counterculture nowadays is avoiding the internet
I often find myself wondering why I spend so much time on lemmy. Not being corpo bullshit doesn't automatically make it good. "Not as bad" can still be bad, like how 1g of lead is "not as bad" for your health as 1g of polonium
Very unpopular, upvoted. Unlike most things that are gatekept by the rich, anyone with an internet connection has access to most of the same content...
Just like almost any city irl.
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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