> When (X) became part of the internet hate machine last year, I put a filter on my home networks and self hosted search engines that essentially erased their partisan poison from existence.
If you really did that then I tip my hat to you, that is a boss move!
> Using the internet should feel like visiting a library. It shouldn't be an endless firehose of advertisement and partisan hatred.
Ideally, but that's not possible in the world we live in. I am cynical about the hatred and the editorial spin applied to the propaganda that masquerades as news.
In my mind, everyone in media is a paid actor trying to push some agenda and are otherwise empty suits.
If our culture, money, and institutions are based on trust, then the last 5 years of media have run that trust out to the bitter end. The trust is reduced to the notion that "they wouldn't do that". 'That' being egregious awful things. Once 'that' becomes actual in the majority of minds, we're sunk.