That’s a really good point. There were individual trolls and general cruel maladjusted scum, but they hadn’t yet been courted or manipulated by political orgs and fed collective marching orders to sow discord.
True. And when I think, “old wild west internet,” we’re talking Usenet and hosts.txt and ASCII porn. It was a utopia compared to the shitscape it turned into (described above)
Excuse me, but the “wild west” internet was never this evil in the geopolitical sense.
That’s a really good point. There were individual trolls and general cruel maladjusted scum, but they hadn’t yet been courted or manipulated by political orgs and fed collective marching orders to sow discord.
True. And when I think, “old wild west internet,” we’re talking Usenet and hosts.txt and ASCII porn. It was a utopia compared to the shitscape it turned into (described above)
Ah, the glory days of Usenet. How we miss you.