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[–] 44 points 2 years ago (5 children)

the major downside of increased access to communications technology is the nutters and crazy people more easily congregate...

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    And there are more of them than we realized back when we started creating the internet. We fucked up pretty bad.

    I sometimes miss the days when the internet was just for scholars, nerds, and geeks.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Right?

    One of the biggest changes with the advent of the Internet was that no matter what your interests, the Internet was always there with that most comforting of messages: "You are not alone.

    Now that we can see that notion taken to it's inevitable and absurd conclusion, I think we can safely say that for lots and lots of people, it's for the best that they're left to believe they are, actually, alone.

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