Yes the free internet is dead and the implications are bad. You can win a battle but not the war so we have to deal with this shit. I don't know why we keep re

Yes the free internet is dead and the implications are bad. You can win a battle but not the war so we have to deal with this shit. I don't know why we keep re-hashing how the internet is dead to knowledgable people who 'are not supposed to be there' or are not being financially supported from someplace. It is just true. These days it is VERY hard for a "consumer" wait sorry a "human product" to curate and share their own interests. Most popular internet platforms and forums are toxic to independents or people without money. While I'm sad that we're enabling content demolishing trolls but everyone around this topic is exhausted. I'm probably going to delete this but damn can we not. This conversation isnt productive and people who can make this outrage productive are too expensive. Every time I see something like this I do a spit take and water my plants with Brawndo cause Brawndo's got electrolytes because thats what plants crave. As an aside, I used to really love how cable tv attracted all of the advertising idiots while the internet wasn't pummeled to death with money and influencers. Cable and the internet had their own place. Now we see web destruction on a scale we cant replace or re-create a space for what the internet used to mean. There is no 'side stream' to filter out non consumer traffic.