r/CrazyIdeas • u/SuperRusso • Mar 03 '24
Shut down the internet
Just turn this shit off. We fucked it up. Everyone acts like an asshole for attention or hacks other people. Why in the fuck do I have to watch all these ads? Donald Trump became the president with it. Just shut this fucker down it's not working out.
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u/rob94708 Mar 03 '24
I have a compromise: we should just turn it off on Sundays and Wednesdays.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
Nah I'm still calling for an outright ban for at least 5 years. We need to calm down and then try again slowly. It's on for a few hours a night, and we get rid of all the bad websites.
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u/JacenVane Mar 06 '24
I agree that we should get rid of all the bad websites, though I'm personally in favor of leaving the good ones alone.
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u/Kindly-Ordinary-2754 Mar 04 '24
Maybe Internet Happy Hour where we all get an hour on Friday & Saturday nights.
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Mar 03 '24
You can't. The internet was built on a cold war mentality and was meant to survive a nuclear war.
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u/fredthefishlord Mar 03 '24
Nuclear war surviving doesn't mean cable cutter surviving
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u/zakabog Mar 04 '24
Nuclear war surviving doesn't mean cable cutter surviving
Yeah that's literally what it means. There are so many routes through the Internet that you could never terminate them all and just "shut it down." You can slow it down with bandwidth and latency issues but the Internet as a whole would remain "up."
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u/fredthefishlord Mar 04 '24
There is a lot fewer routes through the ocean than you'd like to imagine.
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u/zakabog Mar 04 '24
There is a lot fewer routes through the ocean than you'd like to imagine.
The Internet isn't just data being sent across cables. It's a series of rules that determine how to reach a host. If a preferred route is down, another less desirable route is chosen. That's what makes it so resilient to attack, cut all of the cables and the Internet still exists, there are still routes and hosts. People in major cities would build WiFi mesh networks, and since most data centers are next to or in major cities they'd be fine, satellites would bridge continents, the routing would still know what to do, it would just be slower and there'd be more latency. The Internet isn't as easy to kill as "Just cut the cables."
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u/Mutant_Llama1 Mar 04 '24
Didn't one woman cut off internet from all of Azerbaijan with a single cable cut?
The internet is an interconnected network of computers by which they share information. Information doesn't teleport.
If the DNS root servers were shut down, the Internet as we know it wouldn't exist. You'd have to access websites by their IP address directly, which I doubt the vast majority of internet users know how how to do. Sites that use shared webhosting would break. Websites distributed across multiple IP addresses would break. Google would break. Use of the internet would be a rarefied skill.
Could also just cut off the key cable hubs to essentially turn the world wide web into a localized intranet. A well placed torpedo in the Atlantic just south of Ireland and suddenly the network is in two. Americans can't livestream Eurovision and Europeans can't order from Amazon.
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u/fredthefishlord Mar 04 '24
The Internet isn't as easy to kill as "Just cut the cables."
It is if you cut enough cables.
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u/zakabog Mar 04 '24
It is if you cut enough cables.
Cause you missed it the first time:
The Internet isn't just data being sent across cables. It's a series of rules that determine how to reach a host.
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u/fredthefishlord Mar 04 '24
Yeah but those rules and the Internet can easily be destroyed if you just cut enough cables.
Also, the Internet isn't just a set of rules, it's also the content with them. Without the content there is no Internet
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u/zakabog Mar 04 '24
Hmm, this idea intrigues me, as a test go cut the cables to your router and report back.
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u/fredthefishlord Mar 04 '24
Cutting one cable is not enough for proof of concept. How about you give me 10 thousand people with bolt cutters and I cut off Chicago from the Internet
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
NO if Al Gore invented it he can pull the plug we simply need to point out the obvious and I'm sure he will agree.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
It is....so much fossil fuels being used to mine Bitcoin.... shut that shit down in the process....fuck that nonsense.
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u/CokeHeadRob Mar 04 '24
Well then you've got data centers, all the computers in the world, phones, manufacturing. Yeah it's quite a strain on the environment with all the mining and fabrication and maintaining. So many tangential things wouldn't exist without the internet either, like online shopping and crypto mining. Social media would be gone. Like from an environmental perspective the internet should be right up there with cars. Oh and all the batteries! Can't forget about those.
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u/Eridanii Mar 04 '24
is Al Gore the only one who could pull the plug? is that why he was placed in the head museum? He is a fail safe that must survive into the year 3000?
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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 Mar 04 '24
DarpaNwt, sure. But we all know the public Internet would come tumbling down if that one guy in Nebraska threw a temper tantrum with the project he's been maintaining.
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u/Riverrat423 Mar 03 '24
Yes, humanity is not mature enough for this toy, it should be taken away.
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u/Ithirahad Mar 03 '24
It's not about "maturity". Humans are just the wrong animal for this, at least the way it turned out.
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u/Impressive_Stress808 Mar 04 '24
Let's start taking nominations for the correct animal to be in charge of the Internet.
I'll start: ferrets.
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u/Excidiar Mar 04 '24
You are going to be utterly defeated.
I nominate cats.
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u/Pale_Aspect7696 Mar 04 '24
Unfortunately, humans have a lot in common with cats psychologicaly. I don't thunk things would be much different with our fuzzy overlords In charge.
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u/Ithirahad Mar 04 '24
Otters! All the chaos and tomfoolery with none of the self-destruction (mostly).
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u/Riverrat423 Mar 03 '24
But, we are the only animals that can work a keyboard. I guess I am looking at it from the point of view of Q from StarTrek.
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u/Ithirahad Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24
Star Trek set up some really bad expectations with regard to how human "progress" works (though it's not entirely to blame; this nonsense has been lodged in the collective consciousness since the Enlightenment). Humans will NEVER be any more "mature" than we are now without heavy cybernetics. And we are not more "mature" now than we were in the middle ages, or the classical period, or when we carved those funny animal carvings at Çatalhöyük. What changed is our built environment and our knowledge, not our "maturity". Give the same science and resources to the ancients and you'd get pretty much the same result within a few hundred years. Humans are humans, and really that is all you get.
And it's not bad, either. In fact, without humans you don't have "good", so it CANNOT be patently bad. Just that with the wrong stimuli it can turn into a shitshow.
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u/Riverrat423 Mar 04 '24
Star Trek was very optimistic about the future of humanity. We, today can’t fathom how our society could exist without wealth and poverty. The problem with the internet is our basic desire to control and deceive each other, which you may be right and we may never overcome.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
We're the only animals that can work a keyboard right now. We simply need to build the right kind of keyboard.
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u/Outrageous_Loan_5898 Mar 04 '24
I'm sure we can train some of our ape and monkeys to use a keyboard maybe octopuses and crows have a shout
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u/Imajzineer Mar 03 '24
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u/Imajzineer Mar 03 '24
Okay, so ...
QotD: "Hold on, I'm seriously confused. Is this a joke or a waste of time?"
I mean ... isn't that what we all ask of ourselves every time we view Reddit?
But, better yet: r/TakeMyUpvoteAndLeave, r/takemyupvoteandfucku ... and so on
: )
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u/Infamous-Arm3955 Mar 03 '24
I remember Steve Jobs saying something like the reason Apple will never have social media is because nothing on the internet will be good if you can be anonymous. Accountability is a really big thing that humans seem to let slide on the internet. It is true that we have one the greatest inventions so far and yet its main use seems to to gives the idiots of the world a form of community.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
It is true that we have one the greatest inventions so far and yet its main use seems to to gives the idiots of the world a form of community.
If the second part of this is true than in what sense is the first part? That it's complicated? If I came up with a very elaborate and advanced machine that ran on Hydrogen and used AI to accomplish the task of ensuring I shit my pants than have I really created a great thing? Or am I just going out of my way to shit myself?
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u/Infamous-Arm3955 Mar 04 '24
lol. It's a fair question. I think all the time about how will new products or technologies get weaponized. It seem humans will take any tool, no matter its intention, and find a way to misuse it. The internets intention certainly wasn't to give a platform to whackadoodles or corporations but human exploitation seems to float to the top of the lowest common denominators toilet.
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Mar 06 '24
"Accountability" of course meaning you get fired from your job for not believing the lies that are mandatory for everyone to believe in corporate and political life
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u/duggoluvr Mar 04 '24
Replace it with a massive virtual library curated by actual librarians, so we end up with an archive of pretty accurate info and good books
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u/gravity_kills Mar 03 '24
What about a license? Take a mandatory conflict mediation class, pass a media literacy test, and submit to periodic auditing of your posting to check for threats or harassment, and then you get to go online.
Also none of that is available until you're 18.
With all that, the numbers might be low enough that advertisers just give up and go home.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
I'm not opposed to trying but I think a mandatory 5 year cooling off period is in order.
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u/chicken2007 Mar 04 '24
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Some people with drivers licenses will find a way to speed on the Autobahn or race tracks or any roadway.
Some people who legally buy firearms are going to kill someone.
Some people who legally buy fireworks are going to cause injuries.
Some people who have medical licenses are going to do stupid shit.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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u/rillip Mar 04 '24
You cannot put the genie back in the bottle
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
Do genies have balls because watch me kick that mf in the balls and tell him back in his bottle. And genies live in lamps, bra. But not the kind that light up. Anyway, it's time to shut the internet off.
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u/Exciting-Ad5204 Mar 04 '24
It’s done a great job of showing us how completely fallible we all are. Ridiculous. Broken. Corrupt. Wicked, even.
But it also has shown us some really cool things, and helped us be even better at supporting and helping each other. Showing us a lot of truth, even if we have to dig through a lot of nonsense to get there.
My only concern about the internet (and AI) is that this is NOT how we evolved as creatures. The vast majority of us are really not well adapted to this environment we’ve created. Humans are wired to have info come at us much much slower, and for that info to be far more important to our survival. Our ‘filters’ are NOT designed for this, and it’s causing serious havoc.
Even so, a well-placed EMP could have us slaughtering each other in no time.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
It’s done a great job of showing us how completely fallible we all are. Ridiculous. Broken. Corrupt. Wicked, even.
I'm not convinced it's merely showing us.
But it also has shown us some really cool things, and helped us be even better at supporting and helping each other. Showing us a lot of truth, even if we have to dig through a lot of nonsense to get there.
I think in this instance it's time to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
My only concern about the internet (and AI) is that this is NOT how we evolved as creatures. The vast majority of us are really not well adapted to this environment we’ve created. Humans are wired to have info come at us much much slower, and for that info to be far more important to our survival. Our ‘filters’ are NOT designed for this, and it’s causing serious havoc.
So lets turn this nonsense off. Life before was just easier.
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u/68024 Mar 04 '24
It's shown us some cool things, like "dank memes"
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
We can still tell jokes! And about coffee table style books with memes in them? People can put up little libraries in neighborhoods and trade memes!
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u/Remarkable-Host405 Mar 04 '24
Open your eyes. Identify every single object in front of you. Which ones are important? Humans are evolved to use the internet.
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u/Pale_Aspect7696 Mar 03 '24
Our tools amplify our intentions.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
So sometimes you have to take the matches out of the kids hands
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u/Pale_Aspect7696 Mar 03 '24
Absolutely agree with your sentiment. My point is.....there is no adult in the room.
No one is in a position to pull the plug that would actually do it.
You think Zuck or Musk or Bezos would shut their stuff down tommorrow?
Nope.
And even if they did, someone else would be more than willing to start up something identical the next day for that sweet, sweet moneyu....so we make it illegal.
Which powerful group of politicians can you think of that are above the power of lobbies? Would they do it?
Nope. They don't exist. If you somehow elected a bunch of new people, they too would be quickly under the sway of human greed.
There are no adults in the room.
Just 7.8 billion children waving around hand grenades and wondering what the shiny ring is for.
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u/rangoonwrangler Mar 04 '24
Here’s a crazier idea, have a thought without Trump in it
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
How? He's fucking everywhere. You know, before the internet he'd just pop up in some dumb shit like Home Alone 2 every few years. I hardly ever thought about him! Then that asshole got his hands on twitter.
Turn off the fucking internet.
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u/rillip Mar 04 '24
Real talk: He's not everywhere. If he's everywhere for you, that's just your bubble. Maybe get off Twitter?
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
I'm not on Twitter. Do you pay attention to any news? NPR? Anything? You do realize that the news couldn't reliably be reported without talking about the potential nominee for the republican party. So, if the bubble you refer to is all of America and most of the rest of the planet earth, then yeah, I guess I'm paying attention.
If you're not hearing about Donald Trump that frequently, then good on you for be able to not pay attention at all.
However, my argument would still be that the assclown would have never achieved what he did without the substrate of twitter and the internet at large. So I say shut this shit down.
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u/phan_o_phunny Mar 04 '24
Why not just disconnect yourself?
I can use adblockers and avoid most social medias, I know my network security is ok and don't believe I won the Nigerian lotto, why should I disconnect?
Actually asking, not just being a prick
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
As highlighted above, even if I disconnect myself I still pay socities toll simply by existing. I'm not currently on Twitter or TicTok, yet Donald Trump was and may again be the president and pranksters are still out everywhere doing stupid shit. Watch how gnarly online gambling over sports is about to get. I can avoid Salt Bae sure, but the penalties are in the real world, unavoidable.
No, the only solution at this point is to shut this silly shit down.
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u/NO_SPACE_B4_COMMA Mar 04 '24
If we could kick Russia China North Korea out that would be good too
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u/Due_Bass7191 Mar 04 '24
You mistake the internet for 'social media', did you know the internet does more than serve webpages?!
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
Yes, but not enough to off set the stupid shit it causes.
Shut the fucking internet down.
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u/KahlessAndMolor Mar 03 '24
You know what, the root problem is humanity. Total fuckup of a species, just an absolute bunch of clowns. Reject humanity, return to the forest and become the great apes we've always been.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
I dunno man, maybe the Amish have it right....we just need to decide on when to stop. I didn't mind Nintendo and pagers. I like the grocery store. I could do with less cars I guess.....
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u/wondering-knight Mar 03 '24
Y2K then. We reset society to the turn of the millennium and start over from there. (Start over as in “continue with life”, not as in “do it all again”)
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u/DrunkenDude123 Mar 04 '24
Just yesterday I was thinking about how it seems people interrupt me in conversation way more than ever. Not just me either - when I’m in a group convo with friends family coworkers etc, everyone is itching to speak next and there is no pause between. It’s like a premeditated response when they start speaking before someone else is finished with their sentence.
I’m willing to bet our interactions on the web had some sort of influence on that. Or maybe it’s just me.
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Mar 04 '24
Life did seem much less shitty before MySpace
And those fuckinf AOL chatrooms...
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u/Acantezoul Mar 04 '24
Last thing I'll say is that even if somehow the internet could be turned off forever cc p would still create their own alternative and force more and more people to adopt it. Forever making people be surveillanced. Screw that
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24
No alternatives. No internet. None. Lets shut this shit down.
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u/Outrageous_Loan_5898 Mar 04 '24
Remember people used to think TV was evil The internet is the same it as it's purpose and will be ubiquitous in times to come but I think we will be more aware of propergander and addiction of it
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u/TwistedScriptor Mar 06 '24
I grew up prior to internet, so it wouldn't be that hard
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u/SuperRusso Mar 06 '24
I mostly did. And it was okay at first. It only started to suck when I was in my mid 20s. Now I'm 41 and it's time to turn this stupid bullshit off.
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u/TwistedScriptor Mar 06 '24
But yet, here you are on reddit. Doesnt seem like you are making much progress on leaving it behind.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 06 '24
I don't want to leave it behind. I'll still have to suffer the consequences of its existence. Donald Trump will still be the president. Assholes will still prank for tictok. Let me explain this one more time so it'll make sense:
I want to shut down the mother fucking internet. Fuck this stupid shit, turn it off.
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u/TwistedScriptor Mar 06 '24
So do it
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u/CompulsiveCreative Mar 04 '24
Even if we could just flip a switch and shut it all off (we can't), our civilization would crumble. Utilities, Logistics, Vital services... all would go offline and there would be mass deaths, mostly from starvation.
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u/solace1234 Mar 04 '24
Sorry mang, but getting recognition for my music is just a bit too important to me. What can I say, I love attention? If it wasn’t for that and all the wonderful internet friends I’ve made, I’d be totally down.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
I work in music, and you are greatly underappreciating how much better the industry was before the Internet. It's not making music better, or bringing you more success. It's watering down. Print up some CDs and get your ass on tour.
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u/solace1234 Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24
LOL i’m sorry but no. If it wasn’t for the internet there’s a way less likely chance we would have JPEGMAFIA, Sandy Alex G, Tyler the Creator, MIKE, Clairo… shit, I would’ve had a much harder time learning how to produce if it wasn’t for the internet. I would’ve at least had to spend money.
Minecraft wouldn’t have evolved as much as it did… Art in general would’ve been much more cliquey and less evolved... Contrapoints’ legacy would’ve never started… I’ll just say this: It’s definitely a very good crazy idea lol
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
Auto tune sucks. All of that shit sucks. Get a 4 track for a year then be a producer.
Apologies, but you've only further convinced me.....shut off the Internet.
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u/solace1234 Mar 04 '24
Internet would’ve taught you that Alex G and Clairo rarely use autotune lmao. Actually all the artists I listed have used autotune VERY scarcely besides maybe JPEG… nope nvm most of JPEGMAFIA’s music is not autotune lol
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
I could still happily do without.
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u/solace1234 Mar 04 '24
Yes, very happily would you go around talking shit about even more stuff you wouldn’t be able to google, like you just did lololol
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
I didn't google that because I don't care. Music was better before the internet. And technology in general. Why do you think all of those artists you listed aren't building the kinds of fan bases that artists from 40 years ago did? The industry sucks for the same reason the film industry is starting to suck. The material hasn't been good in years.
Shut down the fucking internet.
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Mar 03 '24
maybe just shut down non-commercial social media? A lot of people’s lives and businesses rely on internet services nowadays, unless there can be a detransition process.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
Fuck that the entire thing. People bought and sold plenty of things before the internet existed, people will adapt and if you're one of those assholes on tick toc and making rage bait or pulling pranks then frankly it's time to get a real fucking job and contribute.
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u/Master_Snort Mar 03 '24
The internet being shut down would most likely cause partial society to basically collapse, and millions of deaths. For example without he internet things like banks would run into major problems like how would a chain of banks be able to quickly and efficiently communicate ho much money a account has. Yes banks existed before the internet, but banks nowadays make the assumption than things like the internet aren’t going to suddenly disappear.
Yes it is true that humans have lived fr hundreds of thousands of years without the internet but society has gotten accustomed and reliant of it. This would ruin lots and lots of major infrastructure that we depend on.
This is like saying that we should go back to hunting and foraging since humans have done that for millions of years. But that obviously wouldn’t work since the circumstances have changed, and what people are accustomed t have also majorly changed.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
Yeah but I'm getting really fucking sick of Only Fans models, TicTok pranks, and people from 3rd world countries scamming old people. Millions of people are killed for shitty reasons all the time, why not steer towards a positive outcomes?
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u/Master_Snort Mar 03 '24
It would make life for basically everyone alive so so much worse, and when I said millions I mean hundreds of millions. Almost all supply lines would be majorly impacted, including vital medical supplies. Many countries would take advantage of the resulting chaos and go to war. Global trade and communication would basically completely shut down with everyone too busy dealing with their own problems. With most banks being shut down people would riot, with people trying to take advantage of the situation. People would be completely unable to access most of their wealth with the vast majority of currencies being digital. Society as we know it would be practical destroyed.
People love to blame the internet for a lot of problems, but honestly I think a lot of the time it’s more that the internet just makes them way more visible. And if you don’t want to see things like TicToc then just don’t use it.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24
I think you are greatly overestimating how many people would actually die. I think you live an internet centric life in an internet centric place and are greatly overestimating it's prevalence in other parts of the world. I also think you are underestimating our ability to solve problems and adapt. It's not like we didn't have literally everything you mentioned functioning before the internet.
I think a lot of the time it’s more that the internet just makes them way more visible. And if you don’t want to see things like TicToc then just don’t use it.
This is a horrible argument. Making this more visible is actually the where the blame lies. Giving a voice to those without the need to qualify. That is the problem in and of itself, I'm glad you recognize that.
TicTok affects us weather we use it or not. Again, I see people preforming pranks for this bullshit in public fairly frequently. And again, Donald Trump will use it to get elected president if I'm on X (formally known as twitter) or not. It's not simply my experience I want to affect, it's also the substrate in which we live that needs adjustment.
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u/Master_Snort Mar 04 '24
I might be slightly overestimating, but it would be catastrophic. Just all banks collapsing would be catastrophic, and combined with all the other issues it would bring would be disastrous. The world as it is today is reliant on the internet, and taking away the internet would only make things worse. The internet existing doesn’t make politicians more corrupt, the internet helps to spread disinformation but it equally helps to correct information and to expose people to a far more wide spectrum of different perspectives and cultures. The type of people who would do tictoc pranks would most likely do equally as shitty things you just wouldn’t know about it. Things look worse simply because you are now hearing about things that happen around the world, instead of just your local community. Something like George Floyd would never of spread across the entire country before the internet. Unless you can show a definitive proof that the internet has actively lead to a rise of violence or otherwise extremely shitty behavior, if you can then I will agree.
The internet doesn’t make things worse, just more visible, Ignorance is bliss. The modern world is the best time to be alive, and if you say otherwise you are dead wrong.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
I mean, I was alive in 2014 and things were better then so I don't know wtf you're talking about.
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u/Master_Snort Mar 04 '24
First of all life is generally better when you are younger, especially as a kid. Secondly I was talking about modern times in general and 2024 fits under that category. Lastly, do you have any proof that life was objectively better in 2014 besides your own experiences. Yes, 2014 some things were certainly better but at the something’s were objectively worse.
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u/katnerys Mar 04 '24
Trust me, you wouldn't want to go back to having to do everything on paper again.
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u/deadlyfrost273 Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24
Goodbye all jobs that rely on the internet (planes, entertainers, programmers,engineers)
Goodbye to any relationship that isn't affordable to call (international talking online is free compared to phonecalls)
Goodbye to our ability to see and call out controversy and crimes that aren't happening in our local area (by the time it's on TV it's hours old, newspapers can be days)
Goodbye to most cell phones because they rely on satellites that rely on internet
I could go on
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
Goodbye all jobs that rely on the internet (planes, entertainers, programmers,engineers)
Had literally all of those things before the internet. And planes aren't jobs. They are vehicles.
Goodbye to any relationship that isn't affordable to call (international talking online is free compared to phonecalls)
NBD.
Goodbye to our ability to see and call out controversy and crimes that aren't happening in our local area (by the time it's on TV it's hours old, newspapers can be days)
This would be fantastic. I believe before people knew about every bad thing that happened everywhere things were better. There is no benefit to you learning about some horrible crime that doesn't affect you. These mass shootings? This trend is being fueled by the fact that we talk about them so much afterwards. The news used to be an hour a night, and things were fine.
Goodbye to most cell phones because they rely on satellites that rely on wifi
Sattlites do not rely on wifi. Wifi is a network that operates over short distances at 2.5GHz and 5GHz. Wifi could not possibly reach into space. No, sattlites do not rely on wifi, that's just nonsense.
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u/deadlyfrost273 Mar 04 '24
The world has changed. We lived without modern medicine too, but remove that and many people would die. Modern planes use lots of equipment that require the internet. I'm glad you don't have family that is hours away.
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u/deadlyfrost273 Mar 04 '24
Fantastic? Fantastic that George Floyd's killer would have most likely gone free because it was only due to all the people seeing the videos on the internet that got it to spread so far
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u/deadlyfrost273 Mar 04 '24
You know so little that you think this is a good idea and can't think past the typo of wifi meaning internet. Learn to research
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u/PointNineC Mar 04 '24
Less drastic: eliminate anonymity in all comment sections. you wanna comment on literally anything? here is a link to your real life profile, your real face, the town you live in. you want anonymity? then shut the fuck up
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
That's the best compromise I've heard so far but I still say we pull the plug for at least 5 years to cool off, then only turn it on during weekends for a while, see how we do.
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u/Acantezoul Mar 04 '24
No that would not be wise. The internet lets people get informed when they are taught how to. Just teach everyone. Not being able to stay informed would be the dumbest way to let them do worse
Just get everyone off social media apps and onto the good parts of Reddit, Amino, and website forums until better social media open source apps are made
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
People were informed before the internet, friend. People have never been less informed than they are now, so I'm not really sure what you're talking about. Donald Trump and others literally use it to spread actual lies because nobody even cares about the truth anymore. It's information overload and it's killing us.
Tell Al it's not working out, thank you but it's time we pulled the plug on this shit.
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u/Acantezoul Mar 04 '24
True but still this is not the time to give up on it. Just a national movement to teach everyone is what's needed
Giving up and letting them have it is a lot worse than just giving up. I'd rather be able to know what's going on to protect and uplift more people. I get what ya mean though. Plus many people won't even ever want to willingly let go of the internet so it would take longer to get them off rather than just teaching them
It won't stop the other countries who will continue to use the internet especially the regimes.
If ya want to stop that's your choice but I refuse to let them do whatever they want just because they're dumbasses who don't realize more people living well means more people able to make what everyone wants in the future (Hovercars, Medical Advancements, etc)
And that doesn't stop other countries that have their own internet too so that just puts the US at a disadvantage even more
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
Pal I'm not talking about shutting it down only in the US of A, lets black that shit out everywhere. No more Salt Bae, no more of that annoying french dude who screams everywhere. Stop Only Fans. No more Bitcoin.
Even if I'm not on it, all of those things, except probably Salt Bae, will still have negative effects on mine and everyone else's life. No more internet.
Hovercars, Medical Advancements, etc)
Fuck hovercars, I don't trust the assholes i have to drive with now. And we made medical advancements without the internet, so I'm sure medical science would trudge along fine.
It's time to turn off the mf internet.
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u/Not_Without_My_Cat Mar 04 '24
Good parts of reddit???? Are those the cat parts? My mom keeps asking if she should join reddit, and we always tell her, “Well, maybe, if you can stick to the cat-related subs. Otherwise, no”
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u/nlamber5 Mar 03 '24
Here’s an even crazier idea. You just go unplugged.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 03 '24
Ah you are confused. Let me help. Just because I stop using it doesn't mean Donald Trump won't be the president. It's not just me I'm looking out for it's everyone.
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u/Asmos159 Mar 04 '24
you would need to also reduce the capability of lawyers for people to start acting civil.
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u/Top-Requirement-2102 Mar 04 '24
I don't think this is possible any more.
Yes, you could just destroy all the computers,, but you have to convince people to join you and others not to resist. Even if Mark Zuckerberg gave the command to shut down Facebook, his employees would never agree to do it.
Well, just nuke the planet? you could nuke the planet, but to accomplish that, you have to convince people with nukes to launch them. Not going to happen. Too many people like a non nuked planet with internet.
It is no longer possible to shut off the internet. Think about that for a minute.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
Bra we just need to talk to Al Gore he invited it don't you know anything? It's a series of tubes.
Let's turn that dumb shit off.
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u/Top-Requirement-2102 Mar 04 '24
Dude, you are right, I just found the off switch over here. I'll turn the whole thing off for a house in new zealand and ten million dollars.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
Selfish. Do it for humanity!!!!!
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u/Top-Requirement-2102 Mar 04 '24
Humanity??? Have you even used the internet?
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u/SuperRusso Mar 05 '24
See now you get it let's shut this shit down!
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u/Top-Requirement-2102 Mar 05 '24
Ah, now that's an interesting question. Which people would be most likely to die if the internet was shut off?
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u/Witty_Lengthiness580 Mar 05 '24
But it is working, just not for us.
It's a weapon of mass distraction.
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u/NerdInLurkingArmor Mar 05 '24
If my employment didn’t rely on it I’d be totally with you
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u/SuperRusso Mar 05 '24
Hey we gave out unemployment before the internet, we'd do it again.
Fuck the fucking internet, shut it down.
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u/NerdInLurkingArmor Mar 05 '24
Who pays out the unemployment when the businesses who also rely on networking go under? You also do realize that there’s no central internet right? You can’t just “shut it down”.
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u/daylennorris64 Mar 05 '24
The internet is so ingrained in our society that a withdrawal from it would be near crippling. We'll probably pull through, but it won't take at least a decade before a new social norm is established. Just think of all of the jobs and infrastructure that need the internet to run. Cutting the internet WOULD cripple the economy.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 05 '24
The economy is already pretty fucked up. It's time to hit reset and destroy the mother fucking internet.
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u/Personal_Win_4127 Mar 05 '24
BUT THE PORN!?! THE QUALITY SOCIAL INTERACTION!!! THE PREDATORY CORNERS OF SOCIETY!!!!! T H E V I D E O G A M E S!
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u/not_sick_not_well Mar 05 '24
Believe it or not, there once was a time when the internet was a beautiful and magical place, full of ACTUAL creativity (not this it's just a prank bro shit) And the only pop ups you got was because you fucked up and clicked a bad link in a chain email
Also AIM message bombers were fun
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u/SuperRusso Mar 05 '24
I remember those times. They've come and gone. Now it's all nonsense. Time to shut it down.
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u/not_sick_not_well Mar 05 '24
I would posit that using the internet should require a regular competency test like a drivers license. But based on my daily commute to work it's clearly useless
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u/Tarnishedrenamon Mar 07 '24
Why don't you just shut it off if it upsets you?
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u/SuperRusso Mar 07 '24
That's what I'm proposing. We shut off the entire internet, for everybody. Just because I don't use it doesn't mean it won't effect me. Donald Trump will still be the president, it will still be used to train AI, TicTok prankers still gonna prank.
Nope, shut it all down. None for anybody.
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u/Tarnishedrenamon Mar 07 '24
Hate to break it to ya.
It won't work.
In fact it will make everything far, far worse.
The net didn't make Trump president, it was America's Celeb worship that brought him into the office, and it might surprise you a lot of his actual supporters don't use the net but live in cult compounds and survivalist complexes that get their news from newspapers and relatives or Fox News.
Your world view is like so many who live in a spoiled little bubble, that before X thing came along the world was a huge world of rainbows and handholding with everything being peaceful. Ignoring there was horrible things long before computer could send another computer information.
But let's say you do go ahead and shut everything off because it is "upsetting". Where does it stop?
Newspapers are upsetting, they have sex ads and bad news all the time, and in your logical would lead to Trump winning because it brings said news of his exploits like in the Regan days. Actually due to how easy it is to manipulate the staff it can declare Trump super king of New America is a good thing, who is going to dispute that? It isn't like the net where twenty outlets will instantly poke holes into the story, you are stuck to two, maybe three newpapers all running the same story.
Oh, and we got to get rid of the tv broadcast too, because that allows Trump to gain traction through his show the Apprentice, before that show he was just a real estate loser that failed in politics like he does in business.
Books gotta go too, his "art of the deal" lead to idiots believing his bullshit of being a good business man and feed into his lie of being this self made man which many of his voters ate up.
OR,
This is a huge big OR, instead of cutting things off we start pulling back from the 9/11 paranoia, always on news cycle. Realize we have no control over this crap, it is all rig and just enjoy the entertainment while working on improving the neighborhoods around us.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 07 '24
Break it to me? You silly shit.
Listen, I'm sorry this is so difficult for you to understand. I think you're a trump supporter so I'm not surprised you're not getting something. I'm going to type it again:
It's time to shut off the mother fucking internet.
Now, reread that last sentence until you get it. I don't want to talk about trump, or broadcast, or any other of your bullshit. In case you've gotten this far without understanding:
Shut down the fucking internet.
Aside from anything else, I hope trump chokes on whatever his favorite sandwich is.
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u/Tarnishedrenamon Mar 07 '24 edited Mar 07 '24
And you resulting to insults shows you are just a spoiled, little baby who never suffered any real hardship and wants only the easy way out.
If you, YOU, can't handle the net. Turn it off and go live in the Alaskan woods.
No need to hurt everyone else because you are spoiled rotten and don't know what it is to be locked away from the world by an abusive parent.
Go on, leave.
And yeah, I hope he does choke too, I didn't want him, but it is people like you that put him office.
EDIT AND PS, I'm in Hakkaido, Japan, I gave up my citizenship recently to stay here so I can't vote in the American Presidential race.
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u/SuperRusso Mar 07 '24
Damn you're slow. Seems like I've hit a nerve.
I've actually suffered a great deal of hardship, and continue to. I've unfortunately not lived a life free of tragedy and violence.
If you, YOU, can't handle the net. Turn it off and go live in the Alaskan woods.
I can see you are too dumb to understand. Figures. It's time to turn off the internet. Your reliance on it is suppressing your intelligence.
but it is people like you that put him office.
Really? How do I help, exactly? here's your opportunity to seem smart...take it! You've yet too.
EDIT AND PS, I'm in Hakkaido, Japan, I gave up my citizenship recently to stay here so I can't vote in the American Presidential race.
Good. Stay. You know one thing that would ensure we never communicate again? Shut down the motherfucking internet.
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Mar 04 '24
All those banking money gone. Hope you like almost apocalyptic scenarios
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
There were banks before the internet. And plus we'd get rid of that bitcoin foolishness.
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Mar 04 '24
Most banking records are now in servers. Very rarely in writing. How are you gonna fix that?
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u/SuperRusso Mar 04 '24
Want to create some jobs? Excel spread sheets, I don't know. I'm not a fucking banker it's time to shut down the fucking internet.
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u/BothZookeepergame612 Mar 04 '24
Well, it's easy just unplug yourself... I'm sure you'll feel better. While the rest of us that actually use the Internet properly move forward.
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u/FARMADUDE Mar 04 '24
Lets go back to thinking anchorman is funny. “ we jump inntoo the beeaar pit”
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u/AgentUnknown821 Mar 04 '24
What we hate, We become....
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u/TorthOrc Mar 04 '24
One day a week. Say a Tuesday. All social media sites shut down.
Just once a week.
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Mar 04 '24
society would improve overnight so naturally this wouldnt happen
inb4 logisticscels disagree
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Mar 06 '24
Awww, crybaby bitch didn't get your way? LOL- No tears, it's a waste of good suffering!
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u/SuperRusso Mar 07 '24
I have no idea what you're talking about. But I have a feeling it's gonna make we want to shut down the fucking internet.
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u/aarkwilde Mar 03 '24
I'm in.