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The internet isn’t bad itself.
It’s the fact that bad actors (rich companies, power hungry people, and especially authoritarian states) can hire millions of people and create millions of bots to intentionally spread their narratives on social media. This is immoral, so good actors don’t do it.
No one talks about the problem or acknowledges it. Social Media needs regulation to prevent this, or it will be our undoing.
We kinda can blame the internet for letting a bot present itself as a human. If secure ID was in the infrastructure, better content. If all value production were rewarded with money and value destruction taxed, even better.
Who gets to define "value production" and "value destruction"?
Also, assuming that the problem is automatons producing false information instead of just regular 'ol fuckwits is, in my view, misguided. A huge chunk of the of bullshit online is probably not produced by automated systems but by actual humans – they may be working for bullshit farms like the Russian "Internet Research Agency", but they're human nonetheless.
Sure, the internet itself isn't bad or good, but human nature being what it is means that this is what we get. Regulating it wouldn't stop shitty humans from finding each other on it
edit: also consider that the worst of humanity are generally the ones with the most power right now; they have no interest in making the internet better