How did the internet get to the point where it's either far left or 'whacked' to be the only voices allowed?

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[–]AnarchySpeach 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The more insane = The more views

Views = Money

Money can be used to buy more insane people who control what is allowed to be viewed.

The average idiot believes whatever they're told, so the more crazy things they're told, the crazier they become.

What was originally a method to generate clicks and views for money has become a method for controlling and scaring large groups of idiots. Add voting and politics into the mix and you slowly get a generation of morons looking for morons to lead them.

The end of 4chan was the start of it all. The moment the higher ups realized that websites can be easily controlled the end of the road became this.

Unless some super-techno-thing is created to allow transfer of data anonymously in an easy to use format like reddit or twitter, without moderator control, things are going to continue to get worse.

Anybody else remember back in the old days when reddit and twitter didn't moderate what was "Trending"? Yeah. We will never get that utopia back if moderators are in charge. I've heard that maybe the answer is to have randomized mods where one day you suddenly gain mod privileges for the next 48 hours, then somebody else does, and so on.The danger with that is if it's rigged to appear random, or that the privileges granted can be instantly overruled by a secret moderator class above it that nobody knows about.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I remember when it started as innocent capitalism "Views = Money" but then it became an oxymoron causing capitalism to fall in it's face and now a socialist engineering tool.

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

socialist engineering tool

Propaganda works very well when nobody's allowed to warn others.

Turns out silence was a lot cheaper to buy than we were all expecting.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What do you mean by that? There were plenty of warnings in places like Godlike Productions and in some cases Above Top Secret and news comments back before they blocked sentences.