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It used to be more obvious. The internet used to have popular gore sites and all sorts of horrible content that would find its way online and even go viral in a
by onetimeusename 4y ago
It used to be more obvious. The internet used to have popular gore sites and all sorts of horrible content that would find its way online and even go viral in a number of cases. I think law enforcement, automated detection, anti spam measures, linking accounts to humans, and the centralization of content around just a few sites that had strict rules made it seem like this content barely existed and that people behaved sociably on the internet. I think people lost sight of the rough edges.
TikTok is much harder to censor in automated ways, clearly. People also find ways around the censors. So all that awful stuff may have found a way back onto the internet.