You getting publicly angry about it diminishes the effect that very rich and powerful people have spent a lot of money, time and effort to achieve. Therefore it makes perfect sense for them to directly intervene with installed heads of systems (politicians, power centers, all the way down to forum moderators). It just boils down to, what are you, I or any of us going to do about it (do not answer this publicly).
I remember when you would search a topic on Webcrawler and get tons of different websites with different information. Now all search engines are powered by google and you get the same websites with the same information.
I don't think the internet ever made people smarter. It wasn't as bad as now but it was always a substitute for real conversation or reading a book and had a lot of useless bickering and insults. Back then people would read longer essays and forum threads, but it was natural as the internet became more popular there would be information overload and shorter content to distract you and make you feel like you didn't have time to read longer things.
I have to strongly disagree with you on the smarter part. I recall dialup connecting to old BBS and learning all kinds of things from how to pick locks, how to do basic hacks, SQL injection, legal tax avoidance and many other things.
I used to get most of my dates from Yahoo chat, learned how to trade stocks using Yahoo finance simulator, and learned how to build websites using geocities.
I learned a level of internet safety that modern users have no idea about, I know what is really lurking around in the net, learned to have the thickest "online skin" because I've been called it all a billion times before.
I'm not saying there wasn't useful information on the internet that you could learn from. There is now but the internet is making people dumber anyway. You could have learned lock picking, hacking and other things without the internet - there are books on these subjects. You may say you wouldn't have because you would never have become interested in those things in the first place. But then you would have pursued other things with your time, made better real life relationships and learned other things, perhaps things that would have been more useful in an internet-free world than the things you learnt are in the world of the internet. Of course you might also have wasted your time on TV and movies, but that's just showing those were a bad idea as well as the internet.
Ok I get what you are saying, that smartness exists (or doesn't) before logging on, and that is the determining factor of what one would do with their time, whether to learn or vegetate - and this applies to both online and offline.
This is true with researchers too. YouTube censors the good ones, and now you have to go to their site which isn't free. What used to be free is paywalled because the free sites banned them.
Even this website is crawling with retards and Ziobots and moderators trying to police the use of mean language that hurts feelings.
Demons are raping and eating children, but the problem is that I still have a spine and still get angry about it.
You getting publicly angry about it diminishes the effect that very rich and powerful people have spent a lot of money, time and effort to achieve. Therefore it makes perfect sense for them to directly intervene with installed heads of systems (politicians, power centers, all the way down to forum moderators). It just boils down to, what are you, I or any of us going to do about it (do not answer this publicly).
I'll do everything I can, even if the only little that I can do is speak the truth.
There's 5. Dont forget scored.co!
Amen. Such a beautiful site. Blessed to be here with you brother and truly excited to watch the Lord grow it and us. Best is yet to come.
It was glorious.
The real doom is when the data centers are all up and running and the inevitable FF that pushing us into the digital prisons.
The real doom is when technology fails and humanity regresses back to primitive village sustenience and feralism like after the Fall of Rome.
And you can bet that there are people pushing all of humanity back to that path on purpose.
I miss vBulletin forums.
I remember when you would search a topic on Webcrawler and get tons of different websites with different information. Now all search engines are powered by google and you get the same websites with the same information.
Do you mean Google before it was compromised by the UN and Indians sent by the UN?
I don't think the internet ever made people smarter. It wasn't as bad as now but it was always a substitute for real conversation or reading a book and had a lot of useless bickering and insults. Back then people would read longer essays and forum threads, but it was natural as the internet became more popular there would be information overload and shorter content to distract you and make you feel like you didn't have time to read longer things.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
I have to strongly disagree with you on the smarter part. I recall dialup connecting to old BBS and learning all kinds of things from how to pick locks, how to do basic hacks, SQL injection, legal tax avoidance and many other things.
I used to get most of my dates from Yahoo chat, learned how to trade stocks using Yahoo finance simulator, and learned how to build websites using geocities.
I learned a level of internet safety that modern users have no idea about, I know what is really lurking around in the net, learned to have the thickest "online skin" because I've been called it all a billion times before.
I could honestly go on and on.
I'm not saying there wasn't useful information on the internet that you could learn from. There is now but the internet is making people dumber anyway. You could have learned lock picking, hacking and other things without the internet - there are books on these subjects. You may say you wouldn't have because you would never have become interested in those things in the first place. But then you would have pursued other things with your time, made better real life relationships and learned other things, perhaps things that would have been more useful in an internet-free world than the things you learnt are in the world of the internet. Of course you might also have wasted your time on TV and movies, but that's just showing those were a bad idea as well as the internet.
Ok I get what you are saying, that smartness exists (or doesn't) before logging on, and that is the determining factor of what one would do with their time, whether to learn or vegetate - and this applies to both online and offline.
It's like how periodical magazines and airport fiction destroyed the printed page.
Yeah it was so cool waiting an hour for myspace to load, and then drop at 90% and have to start over 🤣
I do miss the flame wars on yahoo.
This is true with researchers too. YouTube censors the good ones, and now you have to go to their site which isn't free. What used to be free is paywalled because the free sites banned them.
Humanity has survived lots of things, including the nightmare of the Middle Ages and Khmer Rouge.
But it will NOT survive this.
They will eradicate anyone actually capable of fighting back, and nobody will help you because everyone is in this together.