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      I think the opposite can be said too. t’s pushed society forward in so many great places as well.

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          Thing is, the Internet at its core is just a vastly interconnected network. That’s it. All the effects of the Internet are direct consequences of that fundamental property, and time.

          The technological architecture that supports the complexity of modern civilization? The direct consequence of interconnectivity × time. QAnon? The direct consequence of interconnectivity × time.

          You can’t restrain the bad without crippling the good.

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          Everything evolves as a wave of extremes and eventually finds some sort of equilibrium, trying to contain that is a fool’s errand.

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            Or a new normal… paved roads and cars in the US was once pretty extreme, until it became normal. Did you be it’s grownup and tell it to go to bed on time, did you make a futile effort to stunt its growth or did you roll over. Story of the frog in boiling water.

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      I think the problem was that technological advances were faster than social ones. We ended with new ways to control people, and new forms of inequality.

      Many of our problems with technology are rooted in a company abusing from their power. Even the troubled ways we communcate online today are a product of how bigh tech manipulated social networks.

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      The Internet is great. It connects people. I learned so many things even I lived in a small town in a third-world country.

      But ads, scam, and 15-second videos are bad. The current Internet is nasty and not as beautiful as it was.

      Two sides of a coin, I suppose.