Yeah, before the rise of the computer, none of those things really existed. /s

Right, but "It happened before us" isn't a valid defense if we keep enabling it. JFC.

of course it is. You think progress should be stopped if it has any downsides at all?

And we ruined the internet with advertising.

The world is much better than it used to be, you’re just more aware of all the present evil because the evidence is so much easy to gather, disseminate, and search for.

Nobody was aware of the extent of police criminality before everyone had a camera in their pocket, as just one example.

No. Advertising and the need to drive engagement has made the world worse.

At the root of most evil in the western world is advertising, it is just hidden well because it is good at moving the blame to, e.g, tech.

Also those movements were there before tech.