What Covid Revealed About the Internet

What COVID-19 Revealed About the Internet - The Atlantic

Sobering take. I've been saying that the internet lets too many fools and yokels have much bigger audience than they have any business having. It's past time that the well-being of society as a whole take priority over "freedumb" when it comes to the internet. People's lives and health can literally be at stake.

AtlantaAdonis said:

What COVID-19 Revealed About the Internet - The Atlantic

Sobering take. I've been saying that the internet lets too many fools and yokels have much bigger audience than they have any business having. It's past time that the well-being of society as a whole take priority over "freedumb" when it comes to the internet. People's lives and health can literally be at stake.

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There's a lot of freedumb going on here with so many posters promoting chloroquine and reopening fast and furious while protesting restrictions that protect us from disease and death, believing the novel virus pandemic is no big deal.

AtlantaAdonis said:

It's past time that the well-being of society as a whole take priority over "freedumb"

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It's always refreshing when authoritarians on the left show their true colors. Sane people will never stand for the government taking control of the flow of information on the internet. Once they control the internet it's over. Good luck in your crusade, but you'll have much opposition.

AtlantaAdonis said:

What COVID-19 Revealed About the Internet - The Atlantic

Sobering take. I've been saying that the internet lets too many fools and yokels have much bigger audience than they have any business having. It's past time that the well-being of society as a whole take priority over "freedumb" when it comes to the internet. People's lives and health can literally be at stake.

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Yeah, we should control what people think and what they say. Who cares about that old Constitution anyway. Lets let the government control what you are allowed to say and think.

Yeah, thats the ticket

So the right of right-wing grifters to spread nonsense online is more important than societal progress because some piece of paper written by 17th-century slave-owners who didn't want women to vote would want it that way. Got it.

AtlantaAdonis said:

What COVID-19 Revealed About the Internet - The Atlantic

Sobering take. I've been saying that the internet lets too many fools and yokels have much bigger audience than they have any business having. It's past time that the well-being of society as a whole take priority over "freedumb" when it comes to the internet. People's lives and health can literally be at stake.

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Yep. Taking the first steps to totalitarian censorship.

Anyone who qualifies to decide what is true or false becomes all-powerful.

dex4974 said:

It's always refreshing when authoritarians on the left show their true colors. Sane people will never stand for the government taking control of the flow of information on the internet. Once they control the internet it's over. Good luck in your crusade, but you'll have much opposition.

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It's already over. They have already started controlling it. At least we can still get a dark web browser.

AtlantaAdonis said:

So the right of right-wing grifters to spread nonsense online is more important than societal progress because some piece of paper written by 17th-century slave-owners who didn't want women to vote would want it that way. Got it.

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WOW. This is the depth that progressives are sinking to.

AtlantaAdonis said:

So the right of right-wing grifters to spread nonsense online is more important than societal progress because some piece of paper written by 17th-century slave-owners who didn't want women to vote would want it that way. Got it.

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You seem to not understand the danger of precedent. Being allowed to have and express your real thoughts without fear of government retaliation is an important part of having a free society. You're advocating for the creation of thought police. That's a bit of a dangerous road, no?

Good4Nothin said:

WOW. This is the depth that progressives are sinking to.

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They've always been authoritarians underneath the surface. They're just getting braver as their extremist behavior becomes more socially accepted. We live in dangerous times.

Good4Nothin said:

At least we can still get a dark web browser.

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You're not as safe/immune there as you think, especially when they start becoming more heavy handed online.

Good4Nothin said:

It's already over. They have already started controlling it. At least we can still get a dark web browser.

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All your statement means is that you don't understand browsers.

dex4974 said:

It's always refreshing when authoritarians on the left show their true colors. Sane people will never stand for the government taking control of the flow of information on the internet. Once they control the internet it's over. Good luck in your crusade, but you'll have much opposition.

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The takeover has already happened, except it has been by business, advertising, and the lust for money (profit). Back around and before Y2K, the internet was basically a 'peoples free library,' and an open forum of peoples and ideas that otherwise hid in the shadows because of unique tastes and interests. There was virtually NO advertising.

Now its wall-to-wall advertising, with many sights withholding information and news until viewers sign-up, and pay the price of admission. Every search and navigation is being compiled, sold, and distributed at virtually every click; go to Google, search on "Dog" 3 times, then go to any advertising intensive site and you are instantly barraged by advertisements and pop-ups from every Pet related company willing to pay the price.

No longer are the days of 'free' information, or any thing else. The web used to be filled with apps and utilities that were truly share-ware and community property, and now everything is a pay site, devoid of practical information, hawking payment for everything. By all metrics, the internet has turned into an elaborate advertising and marketing scheme, and barely useful for anyone not willing to pay.