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Yes and no. The internet brought a lot of positives, including easy access to information, connection with far-flung social ties, the ability to find online community, reduced transaction costs, increased capacity for data storage, increased ability to collaborate across time and space, and opportunities to engage in political and/or civic discussion.

But there are downsides to all of these points, including the prevalence of misinformation, the erosion of face-to-face connection and local community, economic threats to small businesses, threats to privacy, the loss of leisure time due to work-from-home demands, and political polarization resulting from contentious conversations.

I was a child of the 70's & 80's and that's my take on it as well.

A great aspect of the internet is that of people with similar interests in positive things (cooking, gardening, gaming, wood-working, etc) can communicate and learn from each other.

The shitty aspect of the internet is that of assholes wanting to find other assholes to collaborate with on doing a-hole things (looking at you, ANTIFA).

Sadly, you can't have one without the other because assholes will always come along and shite on things, which brings us to the truism of Team America...

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Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fricked by dicks. But dicks also frick assholes — assholes who just want to shite on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can frick an a-hole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is that sometimes they frick too much or frick when it isn't appropriate — and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies get so full of shite that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are only an inch and a half away from assholes. I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don't let us frick this a-hole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shite!

...which I found on the internet.