When were you a teen? I remember having the exact same thoughts when I was a teen. I think it was in 1990 I was at college in the UK and I remember reading a U

When were you a teen? I remember having the exact same thoughts when I was a teen. I think it was in 1990 I was at college in the UK and I remember reading a Usenet thread about some student riots going on in Portugal. The media coverage at the time was completely off from what I was hearing from the students 'online'. I remember really believing that the internet really would liberate us all with unfettered access to truth and communication and so on. Fast forward a few years to 1995 and one Christmas (I was in the US then) I decided to take a look at the 'web' and the liberation it had brought so far. I called it my deep dive into the dark underbelly of the Internet. And what I found on that night over my dial-up connection stays with me to this day: facism, racism, gore, bestiality, hatred, child porn. Yes, the Internet liberates us. It allows us to freely be the humans we are, on a larger scale. Unfortunately, humanity has a rather large dark side to it. So this story doesn't surprise me in the least - but I still hold out hope that we may one day do better.