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Re:The Push for a “PBS for the Internet” by gowld on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:20PM (#28040583)
The Internet is like a free cafeteria (yay!) where the heroin is right next to the broccoli, but also heavily advertised and dressed up.

Coercing people into making good choices in a non-starter. We need a huge broad based social effort to educate each other on how to be safe. The government can't be trusted to do it for us. We can't just say "coerce the bad guys into submission", because the bad guys will do the same and are better at it.

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Re:The Push for a “PBS for the Internet” by seph-reed on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:11PM (#28041985)
I feel very lucky to have grown up with unrestricted access to the internet in the 90s-2000s. It was still broccoli and heroin, but neither seemed to be able to advertise over the other, and there was limited supplies of both.

Kind of forced me to try every plate.

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