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> so we _should_ excpect it to be like the newspaper, the television, the pamflets in your mailbox, etc You want the internet to degrade to a centrally-control

> so we _should_ excpect it to be like the newspaper, the television, the pamflets in your mailbox, etc You want the internet to degrade to a centrally-controlled, one-way medium rather than enabling the kind of dialogue you and I are having right now? > lies and ways to steer you have become part of the game and it's up to you to see through that. This is arguably how it has always been. Never before have we had such great resources to see through things. Sometimes, what we end up seeing makes us uncomfortable, because the world isn't as nice as we would like for it to be. We can either accept truths and work to change them to be better, or accept pleasant fictions and outright lies to spare ourselves. Deleting the internet won't solve any of these issues. Well, it might help teen bullying some....

wickedOne 8y ago
> You want the internet to degrade to a centrally-controlled, one-way medium rather than enabling the kind of dialogue you and I are having right now? quite the opposite actually. i think we should be skeptic about the things we read on the internet and steer away from the "it must be true if it's on wikipedia" mentality. so _do_ your research if it's concerning a sbject you feel passionate about and _do_ engage in discussions and stay open minded. most of us consume content rather than generating it and as the internet has become of such great interest to big companies and governments, parts of the (news) information we consume is biased and sometimes plain false, just like it is in the offline world. > Never before have we had such great resources to see through things absolutely true, but people have to be willing to see through things / be skeptic. i think (assumption) the largest part of the people using the internet do not question what they read and are not likely to do so in the future, hence my suggestion to "delete the internet"...

wickedOne 8y ago

> You want the internet to degrade to a centrally-controlled, one-way medium rather than enabling the kind of dialogue you and I are having right now? quite the opposite actually. i think we should be skeptic about the things we read on the internet and steer away from the "it must be true if it's on wikipedia" mentality. so _do_ your research if it's concerning a sbject you feel passionate about and _do_ engage in discussions and stay open minded. most of us consume content rather than generating it and as the internet has become of such great interest to big companies and governments, parts of the (news) information we consume is biased and sometimes plain false, just like it is in the offline world. > Never before have we had such great resources to see through things absolutely true, but people have to be willing to see through things / be skeptic. i think (assumption) the largest part of the people using the internet do not question what they read and are not likely to do so in the future, hence my suggestion to "delete the internet"...