Yeah I have a bookmarked search setting for pre-February 2022 searches because of how rapidly the entire media landscape changed overnight. Have to use a lot of archives and waybackmachines as well, since a lot of it was deleted or edited later. All the "pro-Russian" media also got censored and banned and is just gone now, which includes a lot of leftist smaller independent media. FAIR and Grayzone and Mint Press are all suppressed in google search algos compared to pre-Russiagate hysteria

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I remember thinking when I was younger and more naive, that we might not have had the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan or the invasion of Iraq right after, if internet access was more prevalent at the time (or at the least it would have been much more loudly opposed)

This all has made me realize how very foolish that line of thought was

ed. Your comment about things being deleted reminded me of how I was trying to find a specific Reuters article about how Ukraine press-ganged prisoners with military experience into the war very early on; I couldn't find it later, and I doubt I could if I looked now. Just something to add to the pot

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Yeah Internet Utopianism was very widespread back in the day, we really thought it would enlighten humanity and bring peace on earth and all that. Total cope on our part, the internet has many upsides and downsides but a lot more negatives IMO

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