New internet’s a crazy controlled dopamine machine of porn and propaganda filled with ads. Old internet was a cool hacker and hobbiest space that was basically ad free and filled with people that knew about computers. I can’t even go to most normal websites anymore because they’re bogged down with ad servers layered over ad servers layered over tracking servers.
Most people seeing the new internet on mobile devices doesn’t help because it’s inherently against typing long form content or reading long form content, so you just get porn in various forms.
I remember when Facebook first came out it was useful. An actual book of faces of people you know, divided by class and such. Then they added the ‘feed’, and it was the weirdest creepiest thing ever. It’s exclusively suited to insubstantial content of no substance.
We would be better off without porn. We’d also be better off without Instagram and Facebook and Twitter. And dating apps. Forums and BBS’s were mostly positive.
They’ll just link to NYTimes or CNN saying they work, who are mentioning tweets someone made. It’s a giant circle jerk. We have no easy way of knowing how well or poorly any of these things work if they’re new and the media’s and Big Tech’s picked a side on it.
Most people flick through on their phone and read some headlines and that’s what they know about things. If something comes up, they Google it. Google decided Iver doesn’t work, and the headlines from CNN and otherwise say it doesn’t work, so to them it doesn’t work.
Probably helps plenty of people and doesn’t help plenty of others, but there’s a giant echo chamber that most people live in that prevents them from having any but professionally assigned opinions.
This all sounds really complicated. The real reason people keep pushing the ‘vaccines’ is because they either do believe the bullshit that they’re somehow going to let us achieve 0 Covid and that Covid’s Ebola, and/or because there’s a shitton of money behind this pushing people to say that.
They’re not trying to eliminate the control group that would disprove the vaccines, they just believe Covid’s Ebola and that somehow if everyone gets jabbed we’ll have come together as a world and eradicated a virus. Considering we didn’t do that with influenza or other things that’s all bullshit though. Covid’s just another influenza now that skews differently and hits some people worse and some people less.