• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    Exactly. Back in 1995, my dad could never get online. Heck, he couldn’t even remotely figure out a PC. We tried to teach him some basics like ‘click with the left mouse button to open something’, but he was downright scared of the thing. He never, ever touched it.

    But ‘thanks’ to the iPad, he’s e-mailing, on Facebook, on YouTube, TikTok etc. Which also has the unfortunate effect of subjecting him to boomer brainrot. He’s now more actively misinformed than he used to be because of that fucking iPad.

    We’ve made the web accessible to people who shouldn’t be on it. Because it’s hurting them and hurting society as a whole.

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      We’ve made the web accessible to people who shouldn’t be on it. Because it’s hurting them and hurting society as a whole.

      Did we do that though? Or was it some hardware / software developers with no backbone to stand up to greedy corporations who wanted to make it accessible? Other than that - yes, sadly I agree.