Thread: Internet: Good or Bad?

Originally Posted by Anansi the Spider

Is the internet good or bad?

Is the internet isolating or the reverse?

I used to think the internet was liberating, but now I'm not so sure. A few giant firms are gobbling up the internet. They don't have much regard for privacy.

Yes, because my opinion truly matters. Thank you for your insight.

I have a question: Is outer space good or bad? Because I have always felt that outer space is good, the Final Frontier and all that, and where we will eventually colonize the stars and create the Galactic Federation.

But some of my friends think that outer space is bad... they say that dangerous meteorites and asteroids can come flying from space and hit the earth, and that this has happened before in the distant past, and may have even destroyed the dinosaurs. On top of that, space is full of dangerous gamma rays and other types of radiation, and practically speaking, it isn't very useful to us because everything is very very far away, 100s of light years, and even if we found a good alien planet, it would likely have deadly alien bacteria on it. Also, speaking of aliens, there is the ever-present danger of alien invasion by a more advanced planet than ours.

So, I am somewhat ambivalent on this issue. Discuss.

Uncle Ferd says outer space is good...

... `cept when somebody usin' it fer bad.

Originally Posted by Anansi the Spider

Prosecute the “Wal-Mart of child sex trafficking” - Craigslist

Craigslist makes a lot of money off child sex trafficking.

Here's founder Craig Newmark:

i don't understand?why ?in your nation child sex trafficking is almost nothing. in vietnamese . it is 20- 30 years in prison.yes. i thinks it is more.

Invasion of privacy from Google: Google in New Privacy Probes

The banksters got away with a lot of cash: Regulators eye bank's role in Facebook IPO

Originally Posted by GeneralZod

Twitter. A internet site based on Japanese Haiku (with none of the poetry) which is completly bland and monotone in content. Example of Stephen Fry. A british comedian who is intelligent and wiity but on twitter he was reduced to talking about his bowl movements every few hours.

I find Twitter especially useful. If you follow 100+ accounts, you get a constant stream of information in your timeline and it's much better and faster than Facebook. I followed the Zimmerman case on Twitter and covering breaking news stories is what Twitter is especially good at in addition to its celebrity tweets.

Does anyone want to see a small number of people controlling the flow of information? These huge internet corporations are dangerous!

Facebook, Google, Apple Censoring Religious Speech?

Religious and non-religious alike should condemn censorship.

The internet is not necessarily the ally of freedom:

Caught in the net
Why dictators are going digital