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AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I hate to say this, but the Internet is not the same as it was back when I was growing up.

You always had the possibility of stumbling across a bad actor. Now the billionaire tech broligoply who own most social media are the bad actors. How many websites did you visit where the person running the website has been caught repeatedly trying to psychologically manipulate and control the masses via disinformation?

Back in the day, nobody would be doing whatever the fuck it is these people are doing with kids and their pedo adjacent targeted ads and chat bots bc they would be afraid of being sent to jail for cp

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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Nowadays it’s filled with giant, powerful, activelly predactorial entities using teams of Psychologists to come up with ways to subvert human falibilities and weaknesses to their ends no matter how much it fucks up their victims.

Back in the day pretty much the worst that could happen to you was getting hurt when trying to do for fun some kind of explosive based on a FAQ from Usenet.

Back in the day it was like a sleepy village with some shady corners, nowadays its Blade Runner’s Los Angeles with the authorities trying to turn it into Mega City One.

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