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I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole.
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The weird thing is that that's always been the case. Only thing that changed last decade is the gullibility of the reader.
No, it was the widespread adoption of social media. People aren't more gullible you just started having non-technical in a space they dont understand and cannot behave responsibly in.
It's marketed capitalistic abuse and rape of a technology, just like what happened to everything good that humans make.
Bull, people are more gullible. Back when I was a kid, if you hear something on the street, you went and checked it. But on the internet, people accept shit as-is, because they like it and that's it. Fucking hell.
I grew up pretty certain in the ideas that AIDs was gay cancer, Boy George was straight, Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to perform auto fellatio, Mother Theresa was the very idea of kindness, a girl couldn't get pregnant if she sucked on you after cumming in her, and that jet fuel could melt steel beams.
(Some of those I only half-believed and maybe not all the best examples)
Ikr... I paid so much to get my ribs removed and it was still just the tip.
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