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When I was young, the assumption was that technology and the internet could never actually be trusted. It always felt weird when that shifted.
In a way, it's kind of comforting going back to that. I think a lot of us just won't do that with tech anymore.
So refreshing to see another person say this.
Everyone on the internet is a liar. I have been using that assumption since the bbs days.
I was dumbfounded when people were putting thier lives online as reall people then horrified that people don't seem to understand just how much online is just utter bullshit with the worst part: they repeat it as facts.
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
I was just explaining this absolutely ancient meme to my partner yesterday. They weren't terminally online in the '90s, so they didn't know that it's all just dogs telling lies.
When I was young, the assumption was that no information could be trusted. We were taught that everything you read was written by a person with an agenda; who that person is and what their agenda might be needs to be accounted for when parsing any message.