• Daft_ish@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m not saying there should be no internet. I am only saying maybe some restraint would be advantageous for everyone.

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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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        9 months ago

        the Internet at its core is just a vastly interconnected network.

        Nothing about what you said invalides my point.

        Not every human transaction has to be made over the internet. Other technology’s are sufficient and do not cripple society.

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          9 months ago

          You can’t restrain the bad without crippling the good

          That part. “People should…” is an impotent sentiment. How do you incentivize, or force, a regression to “sufficient” technology? How do you do so without affecting beneficial network technology?

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      9 months ago

      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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        9 months ago

        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.