The Internet is the breeding ground of all of the conspiracy theories that are taking over the public zeitgeist.
The Internet is the source for most of the yellow journalism put out by today's 24 hour "news" cycle.
The Internet is where the dregs of humanity congregate and reinforce each other.
Bad news travels faster than good, and lies travel further than the truth.
We could have known better.
We could have seen this coming.
We were too busy falling all over ourselves with how ingenious we were. Shop online! Keep in touch! Publish your rants! Argue about politics with strangers! Woo! If nothing else, the avalanche of Internet porn should have clued us into what grade of content we could come to expect from it.
If people aren't capable of handling this technology, what now?
It's not like we can put the genie back in the bottle.
Even China can't keep their Internet entirely locked down - all they've done by censoring it is create super-hackers.
This is Pandora's box, and regulations don't work on it.
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