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>>ANewbu+(OP)
The global internet sure was fun for a bit.

>>etchal+je1
Was it? It did a tremendous amount of harm as well. Future historians may judge us very harshly for how cavalier and flippant we were in unleashing this technology onto the public.

>>oldjim+Zl1
Can you give us some examples of harm it's done?

>>squigz+WN1
There was the time facebook enabled a genocide in Myanmar, there is the Uber and AirBnb operating criminally without consequence having significant negative economic impacts to countless cities, there is all the research that shows the deep emotional damage done to teens on social media.

It enabled crypto, which is a criminal exercise to defraud people.

It also massively enabled echo chambers and conspiracy theories, undermining our social cohesion and community.

The way we rolled out the internet was a mistake and obviously so.

>>oldjim+Kb3
Thanks. And out of curiosity, could you name some positive things the Internet has enabled?

I'm also curious how you think we could have rolled it out better to have avoided those things.

>>squigz+rg3
-->could you name some positive things the Internet has enabled

This interaction? Honestly much much harder to list the positives.

I think much more regulation much much earlier. Cypto-currency should have been shut down immediately never allowed to grow. Same with Uber and AirBnB. Social media companies should have been banned from during algorithmic feeds and been required to moderate content much better.