[amiantos]

Every single one of your comments in this thread is some slippery slope stuff where you think corporations and federal government are going to work together to kill off the (public?) internet. It's okay that you feel that way, even if it's just a big ol' fallacy, but you don't need to repeat it in six different places. You made your point, you think the internet is doomed no matter what happens, great, let's move on.

[pixl97]

>even if it's just a big ol' fallacy

Really?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_...

Please wake up, won't be long before someone fires off a lawsuit at HN and we'll have to give identification here.

[specialist]

Not a slippery slope. That's exactly what happened.

You've (unironically?) restated the crux of the Dead Internet Theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

Authentic human activity has been completely overwhelmed by bots and slop. Discerning signal from noise becomes too burdensome to bother with.

Of course the physical medium continues to exist.

Of course there are still humans, such as yourself, producing free content, to be harvested and regurgitated by parasites.

But authentic human activity is increasingly going out of band, no longer discoverable. Whatsapp, discord, private groups. Exactly as the theory predicted.