The stupid never will end will it?
Not likely to end so long as schools are allowed to indoctrinate rather than educate.
The biggest threat the left is "the virus". People are teaching their (surviving) children at home rather than packing off to you mind-numbing indoctrination centers. In a generation The Democrat Party will be but a cautionary memory.
Only indoctrinated right wingers say that instead of being grateful for modern broadband times and learning as much they want on the Internet.
"Modern broadband times" used to be a wonderful thing. Twenty years back I would dance daily just thinking of being alive at such a time. In comes a new phase of intentional measures to censor information.
The days of trusting certain search engines (primarily Google, Bing, Yahoo) to show you all available facts are gone, they are completely biased. I've done a few tests to see for myself and found that DuckDuckGo is better balanced, the other three more like a see saw weighted down on one side. That goes against our goals for transparency, our freedom of choice, and as you've stated prevents "learning as much as they want".
As a fair and honest person, I demand at least two sides of the propaganda coin or bust! All jokes aside, people deserve to know what goes on in the world, even when a political party would prefer that only their side is represented. I call foul!
I was on the internet 20 years ago, and my recollection is quite different. I found that NOTHING I was looking for was actually on the internet and all of my searches lead me down a lot of rabbit holes, but seldom provided me with the information I actually wanted or needed, and porn was everywhere.
As a work resources, once all of the statutes and property records started to get up loaded, it was terrific. Instead of going from government office to government office, delivery search letters and waiting for responses, we could log into government offices and do our searches right from our own desks. Once electronic registration came into being, we were away to the races, we could close deals from our own desks.
I'm not really interest in proganda from either side. I'd rather have facts and data. I don't need to be told what it all means. I can figure it all out for myself.
Well you missed my joke ,that happens, regarding wanting propaganda from both sides.
Twenty years ago I was researching information to help a family member try to survive pancreatic cancer. I was able to connect with John Hopkins as well as read the latest medical journals written by surgeons. I also learned about drugs that were available from Canadian pharmacies that had not been approved by FDA that were considered superior to those available and was able to get two meds that proved effective into the treatment plan . Unfortunately, all of the information in the world at the time could not save someone with stage 4 PC, and sadly is pretty much still the same case.
I was also starting a family tree and the research on the Internet was, and still is, most helpful. It was a world of difference of going to the library and then suddenly having access to global information all at once.
Politics at that time was on a back burner, although I found political chat more entertaining than informative.
I'm sorry for your loss. I have friends whose daughter had a rare form of non-Hodgins Lymphoma, which returns time and time again until it kills you, in the late 1990's and they used it to find treatments for their daughter's cancer. Their story does have a happy ending. Their daughter is still living.
The internet was intended as a scientific research tool, so not surprisingly, scientific information was the first available, along with the porn (every communication system ever invented was first used to create pornography).
Yes, I've been doing research on my family history as well. My mother's family has been in Canada since 1741. My grandfather on my father's side, arrived in Canada as an orphan in 1891, and I was able to track him back to his family in England. My mother's family has made a very big deal of their geneology, and our family has a whole section in the Canadian Encyclopedia on the contribution to the founding of Quebec by our original ancestor, and the "dynasty" he founded in Quebec, making research so much eaiser.
