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Any form of human interaction has and will be used for good and bad things equally and there will always be anger. If you was to stop people doing something th

by Zenst 5y ago

Any form of human interaction has and will be used for good and bad things equally and there will always be anger. If you was to stop people doing something that some deem to make them angry, then there would be just as many, even more who would be angry that you stopped it. Problem is - people communicate - they can get angry, compared with people who don't communicate - they get physical in their communication. So the web, is good. After all, should we lambast whoever invented paper for the selection of bad printed material in human history. Nope.

amelius 5y ago
The internet also spreads misinformation. What happened at the Capitol can be blamed on the existence of the internet.
- vengefulduck 5y ago
  See paper. All the “misinformation” ever spread before the internet was written on paper. Is paper evil?
  - bitexploder 5y ago
    See humans. They just talk to each other and make stuff up some of the time. Are humans evil?
    - tauwauwau 5y ago
      I think we already know answer to this question, which is "yes".
    - travisgriggs 5y ago
      I think this line of argument is not complete enough. Of course, everything can be used for good or evil. And I don’t think the internet should go away. Because it does a lot of really cool things. BUT. The internet spreads disinformation (and other ills) at a scale that is off the charts compared to paper, word of mouth, or various forms of radio transmission. I think we have to honestly accept that its efficiency in both speed and reach is a bit of game changer/transcendental/new level. We’ve relied on the lack of reach and speed of spread to create a “drag” on bad info in the past. People had time to “sleep on it.” Generational knowledge was accumulated. We’ve lost that, and it’s getting worse. The fact that this has evolved so quickly (just 30 years), has prevented society, which evolves slowly, from keeping up with and generating wisdom and rules to handle this new fire. Policy makers (mostly older) worldwide still don’t understand it and want to map experiences from their earlier formative years onto it.

by Zenst 5y ago

amelius 5y ago

The internet also spreads misinformation. What happened at the Capitol can be blamed on the existence of the internet.

vengefulduck 5y ago
See paper. All the “misinformation” ever spread before the internet was written on paper. Is paper evil?
- bitexploder 5y ago
  See humans. They just talk to each other and make stuff up some of the time. Are humans evil?
  - tauwauwau 5y ago
    I think we already know answer to this question, which is "yes".
  - travisgriggs 5y ago
    I think this line of argument is not complete enough. Of course, everything can be used for good or evil. And I don’t think the internet should go away. Because it does a lot of really cool things. BUT. The internet spreads disinformation (and other ills) at a scale that is off the charts compared to paper, word of mouth, or various forms of radio transmission. I think we have to honestly accept that its efficiency in both speed and reach is a bit of game changer/transcendental/new level. We’ve relied on the lack of reach and speed of spread to create a “drag” on bad info in the past. People had time to “sleep on it.” Generational knowledge was accumulated. We’ve lost that, and it’s getting worse. The fact that this has evolved so quickly (just 30 years), has prevented society, which evolves slowly, from keeping up with and generating wisdom and rules to handle this new fire. Policy makers (mostly older) worldwide still don’t understand it and want to map experiences from their earlier formative years onto it.