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Not just the internet. This is the world we have made for our children. It is highly distressing.

I just feel somehow personally responsible for the way things went with the internet and surveillance capitalism.

I remember in early 2000s how I used to download some programs[1] to pay me to watch ads. I didn't pay content creators anything, didnt donate, I didnt have money, but I could've spared some.

I just didn't do anything to stop it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_to_surf

We are not individually responsible, but we are collectively. The latter isn’t productive.

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