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> The internet that I grew up with wasnt this political or bombareded with political news and such, I feel like this is really bad for peoples mental health and
by itake 2y ago
> The internet that I grew up with wasnt this political or bombareded with political news and such, I feel like this is really bad for peoples mental health and would like to help them.
maybe we had different internet (I grew up in the USA), but I remember a lot of shock porn/sites. I remember 4chan posting truly horrific content. I remember "prank" videos. I remember revenge porn. I'm kinda glad the internet has cleaned up a lot.
- muzani 2y agoMe and my friends still make goatse jokes today. But the shock stuff is nowhere near as bad as the politics today IMHO. I grew up on IRC back when 9/11 happened. We'd talk about how radicalized the mujahideen were. And it was puberty, we went from Nickelodeon to C&C Generals. That was the politics, plenty of caricatures, but the caricatures were a safety barrier. These days it's completely common for one party to be radicalized against another party. Words like genocide and dictator are thrown about regularly. People cheer when a CEO is murdered. This is akin to people cheering for the suicide bombers back then. I mean, the Internet I'm in is already cheering for Hamas, even on the videos of Hamas blowing up ambulances. The old internet was a spectator violence internet, but the new internet is about violent participation. If it keeps up, we'll likely see more things like the Capitol Attack, all these things that make for great television.