• grue@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Excuse me, but the old “wild west” internet was never this geopolitically evil.

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      10 months ago

      True. And when I think, “old wild west internet,” we’re talking Usenet and hosts.txt and ASCII porn. It was a utopia compared to the shitscape it turned into (described above)

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      10 months ago

      That’s a really good point. There were individual trolls and general cruel maladjusted scum, but they hadn’t yet been courted or manipulated by political orgs and fed collective marching orders to sow discord.