Re:Google introduces $50 4G smartphone
by Nextgrid on Sunday September 05, 2021 @12:06PM
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> But billions of people will get access to all the worlds information.
This is exactly how we ended up with QAnon, anti-vaxxers and people taking horse dewormer.
I'd argee with you ~15 years ago, but with the internet now being more or less dominated by companies who profit off "engagement" and are hawking any content (no matter how false or harmful) as long as they can get eyeballs to look at their ads I'm not sure it's that good of a thing.
This is exactly how we ended up with QAnon, anti-vaxxers and people taking horse dewormer.
I'd argee with you ~15 years ago, but with the internet now being more or less dominated by companies who profit off "engagement" and are hawking any content (no matter how false or harmful) as long as they can get eyeballs to look at their ads I'm not sure it's that good of a thing.