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You ignore sock puppets, troll farms, social manipulation by malicious actors, CP, literally wasting the energy consumption of Argentina to hash transactions to
by PartiallyTyped 5y ago
You ignore sock puppets, troll farms, social manipulation by malicious actors, CP, literally wasting the energy consumption of Argentina to hash transactions to make money, the anti-vax insanity enabled by echo chambers, and god knows what else.
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- Nasrudith 5y agoWith the exception of hash energy waste you ignore their preexistence in society. Seriously, the people who find the internet the well of all sorrows keep on forgetting history beyond the remmit of their personal nostalgia. Disturbingly look at netherlands in the 1971-1987 child pornography was outright legal and had Lolita magazine openly existing. Look up Joop Wilhelmus, the infamous proprietor of it. Somehow it remained legal for 55 magazine issues.
- PartiallyTyped 5y agoI believe that you ignore the scale of the things that are happening. To achieve the same "harm" then, as now, one needed significantly more money, and resources than they need today, and it was significantly more obvious. We should also not forget everything that's happening on 4chan (/b/, /x/, /pol/), and the like. Countless trolling that resulted in suicides with zero repercussions, doxxing, incidents like the one that lead us to "we did it reddit", QAnon, and so on. To ignore the scale and claim that it was happening then so nothing changes is dishonest.