The real reason why internet is bad
Why is the present state of (mainstream) internet bad?
- Widely used as a propaganda machine, powered by AI and personal tailoring to look more appealing
- A significant portion of people are becoming more and more stupid, becoming more prone to reconditioning of behavior (there is sufficient evidence to suggest that theories like Pavlovian Conditioning, Operand Conditioning can be true in practice)
- Massive censorship of specific ideas are seen on contemporary social media platforms. They have become the primary place of communication but having recommendation and filter algorithms to decide what people should see makes discussions unfair by putting much more weight on specific sides while ignoring others without giving opportunity for people to decide for themselves.
- Many harmful or false information are spread through infotainment making people accept them with blind faith without giving any proper thought, allowing harmful ideas to spread throughout societies
- Poses a massive threat to privacy because of data-mining, -selling, terrible ToS and lack of end-to-end encryption. Spyware Watchdog is a good place to look into threat levels of many common software.