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One might say the Internet is as well.

• BizarroLand 5y ago
  That would be like saying public parks are a health crisis because occasionally people get mugged in them, i.e. a vast overstatement. But who would go to a public park if they had to pay $60+ /month and constantly get bombarded with flashing, intrusive billboards and pickpockets just to be able to talk to their friends or play a game together? The much larger issue is that the internet doesn't have boundaries to prevent greedy and abusive people from competing for every available inch anyone wants to be in. The way the internet should work is that everyone has access to it, that there are a variety of large, interest based hubs that draw people together, and that anyone can host a section of it for themselves for nothing more than the cost of electricity, and that ads, if they are necessary, should be based on the current page's topics rather than uniquely generated for every denizen. It may be too late for the current internet to have that idyllic setup, true, but that doesn't mean it isn't the way its supposed to be.