Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it’s been on my mind and I want to share it with someone.
In the 00’s every new thing we heard about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress.
That lasted into the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now we’re well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking for. New ways to force ads.
At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing in the world. Now I don’t know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don’t look forward to hearing news about it. It’s sad, man. We’ve lost a lot. The mega corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones, and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an insatiable desire for money.
We’re at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20 years of progress, I don’t think most of us will like what the next era brings.
Yeah, like whatever, get rid of them too. But like why did you feel the need to “what about” to talking about misandrists in response to someone criticising the amount of violent misogyny present on the early internet?
OG comment claimed that “dumb Karen” is one of the reasons why internet went downhill, followed by a reply of “incels” being responsible. Within this reply, a mention of r/beatingwomen is put besides r/jailbait, basically signalling that the replier wanted the conversation to shift to a binary gender war, to which I replied that a counterpart to the incel subreddits exists, and is not shutdown or criticised the same way incel subs are, and that both must be shutdown if censorship is going to be weaponised to destroy cultural hate.
Misandry is a counterpart to misogyny, and both fuel each other. This is the basic concept of hatred. Hate fuels hate, and love (not selective) fuels love.
Whataboutism claims are a good sign of pseudo intellectuals dog whistling to attract mob attention, usually a last resort card played by people when they never have good discussion or argument skills. And apparently, I never imagined in my wildest imaginations that it will be used as a reply to a Hexbear user, considering I support the leftist instance (just like Lemmygrad) overwhelmingly.