alt Hacker NewsThere are people in this thread directly calling for us to strip protections from search engines and force them to shut down.
I think a lot of this discussion has become detached from reality and we’re just entertaining some people’s impossible fantasies about shutting down the internet and returning to the past.
Human instinct is always to ban and fight everything as soon as any change happens in society. The same biological motivation to doomscroll fuels our instincts to panic and doompost about how society is ruined unless we do [brash action].