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>anymore than the internet brought people together The Internet DID bring people together though. You and I are having a conversation that only would have occu
by alasdair_ 3y ago
>anymore than the internet brought people together
The Internet DID bring people together though. You and I are having a conversation that only would have occurred due to the Internet.
On a more specific sense: my wife and I met online. My children would not exist without the Internet. That seems like bringing people together to me.
- cjohnson318 3y agoI appreciate what you're saying; my wife and I met online also. I think the internet has also helped make identity politics more pervasive and have spread a ton of very unhelpful "information", e.g., "demoncrats and celebrities eat aborted babies to look younger," or "the earth is flat and the government controls the weather," or "the election was stolen and we need to storm the capitol to take our country back". In the nineties, people were much more sympathetic to common sense gun control, and we did things like pass the Brady Bill. Now, it seems like any form of gun control is fought tooth and nail. In my opinion, this is a case of identity politics, accelerated by the internet. I don't have a solution to this problem. I'm just saying that our predictions about how networked computers would be used, and the reality of how they are used today, are starkly different.