Has the internet gone soft?

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Likes, retweets, and reblogs have gamified everything and turned the internet into a Skinner box for cheap dopamine hits instead of a place for enlightened discussion. [...]

What was once a tool for exposing the Elite and their depravity through the lens of independent journalism has now turned into a massive hypnosis chamber for stupefying and misinforming the public,

In the 80s there was all that fearmongering about T.V turning people stupid, but the internet really perfected it. T.V can't ever deliver the same kind of interactive and micro targeted dopamine hits that today's optimized skinner box internet can.
 
Making revenge porn illegal is a further symptom of this broader phenomenon.
 
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