Has the internet been destroyed?

_Disinfo
_Misinfo
_Censoring
_Denial of service
_Termination of account
_Banned

^These terms are in full effect, and are broadening. They are encompassing us. We are being touched by one or more of those things, just for coming online. It is so wide spread now that it has indeed destroyed the internet, in my professional opinion. What do you think though?

And you can beat viruses by paying for anti virus protections. But it's just modern day extortion at this point. Plain and simple.

The internet is also destroying T.V. with all these different streaming services people have to shell out to.

I wouldn’t say it has been destroyed just yet, but it is no longer the glorious sandbox of opportunity and danger it once was. It is rapidly becoming the sterilised shopping and control conduit they wish us to plug into. Eventually it will suck our very beings into itself and explain the anomaly of the missing alien meds civilisations. Once you reach a certain point it’s much easier for the AI’s to create for us, than to reach out in any physical sense.

For now we will just witness the transformation of hope and opportunity into the digital shackles of control.

The elite of the world have been trying unsuccessfully to control speech since the dawn of time it has not worked once it wont work this time either

We all will eventually do like china use the dark web to exchange ideas and the goverment can know how much porn you watch

a reply to: Claymation213

No, the internet is not dead, yet.

It is however a representation of society. The state of the internet is more of a symptom than the actual root of a problem.

People vote with their clicks and dollars, and so far the worse offenders still get a lions share of attention. People want sterile safe places, to be told what they want to hear, or outright echo chambers. So long as that's what society demands, that's what the companies will provide.

God forbid someone wonder off somewhere that demands them to parce through some topics and reconcile a little discomfort.

I think you are confusing the transmission medium, i.e." "The Internet" with sites that use it.

-Misinfo & Disinfo are provided by the sites you visit.

_Denial of service is caused by people intentionally disrupting the Internet or a site they do not like, just like "protesters" blocking public roads to "bring attention" to their favorite issue few people care about.

These others:

_Censoring
_Termination of account
_Banned

Can be found in copious supply in this very site, as well as others. Since they are, by and large, privately-owned sites, they have the right to do so just as I have the right to bar you from my home.

Don't mistake the road for the sites that are accessible from that road.

a reply to: Claymation213

The internet DIED - Almost - the day they monetized it and sent in copyright lawyers and advertising agency's.

The internet, not the original US defence but the Civilian one that arose from that and that eventually took over from that, the university to university to computer enthusiast to computer enthusiast internet of old that began to die sometime around the early to mid 90's is sadly now gone and it's final death knell sounded when perverts and organized crime gang's started to use it for there nefarious dealing's.

At one time it was information sharing with no borders and almost no rules other than the morality of the mostly academically minded people that were into it back then when it was seen as nerd country.

Now there is a corrupt and very dark place called the Dark Web but that is definitely NOT the internet of old and is the hangout of those very scumbags that did for the internet of old.

It was those criminal's that eventually led authority's to begin to try to censor it, well those and all the copyright theft that was going on.

Now it is being used as just another media outlet, propaganda upon propaganda upon propaganda BUT at least there are still some (mostly) free speech platforms such as ATS that people can still have discussions on.

I personally miss the days of sites like Lunararchaeology.com and other such outlandish sites dedicated specifically to single conspiracy branches and while ATS and a few other sites act as umbrellas for what is left there has been a lot of information lost with there demise, some of that information some entity's out there WANTED gone as well.

But the Net today is today controlled, censored (not always a bad thing but it depends on whom is censoring and what there motivation is) and regulated as well as overrun by those that stole it from the old and I call them this with respect NERDS of the past.

One of the biggest tools of control is DISINFORMATION.

And the Net these days is chock full of it.

a reply to: Claymation213

Nope. Not at all. Bigger. Wider. More secretive, more intrusive, more records of everything, pings, clicks and "ONIONS" and secure "CLOUDS".....we feel safe with....it gotten worse....more web-like than ever.

By its very nature...the internet and web has to be completely censorship-free...to become complete achieving total independence....and we're aways' from that.