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dwayneb

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11. Not only negative it will bring the end of freedom as we have known it

Reply to tulipsandroses (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:30 PM

Sep 2025

There was only one purpose from the very beginning - and that was to use the Internet and information technology as a tool to enslave us. It will be the ultimate tool in the future for modern authoritarian regimes like the one we are witnessing here in the USA.

Track and control all of us all the time and feed us with propaganda. It is everything George Orwell imagined in 1984 and much much more.

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Do you think that the internet has been a net positive or net negative for society? [View all] tulipsandroses Sep 2025 OP

In twenty-five words or less? marble falls Sep 2025 #1

jury is still out RussBLib Sep 2025 #2

Social media has been a big negative newdeal2 Sep 2025 #3

Everything has been quarter-sawn into money as humanity has been lost. bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 #4

I agree with you canetoad Sep 2025 #5

Social media (algorithmically driven for conflict & disinformation) + AI are the synergistic pillars of its malevolence. Celerity Sep 2025 #6

Negative. Scrivener7 Sep 2025 #7

Not sure. How did Talk Radio work out? surfered Sep 2025 #8

Info-overload. Way too much hyperbole , click bait, competition, melodrama, and silliness. Ping Tung Sep 2025 #9

Substantially net-negative . . . . hatrack Sep 2025 #10

Not only negative it will bring the end of freedom as we have known it dwayneb Sep 2025 #11