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Once the trolls realized that they could convince enough people to join or believe them to impact the real world it was over for internet freedom. The people that have held power for generations don't like losing that power. It's a shame that we'll lose most of the good parts of the internet along with it too, and all we'll be left with is a platform for entertainment of the most clicks. The internet can't route around broken culture.

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> The internet can't route around broken culture.

That explains quite a bit. So many of us thought that the internet was going to change society for the better. Instead, society changed the internet for the worse.

Utopian visions always have the problem of dealing with the humans that we have, not the humans that we wish we had.

The internet simply became a better mirror. It becomes more human every day. This is what humanity actually looks like on a larger scale.

Now that we can see ourselves at a scale we've never been able, we have an opportunity to make adjustments at scale, which is a process that takes generations.

Humanity has and will continue to be the downfall of many a grand vision.

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