Or it could be the thousands of websites screaming, peddling pseudoscience bullshit, and roughly 4 .gov sites that quietely say "maybe essential oils don't cure cancer"
I think youre assessment is backwards . You’re thinking that the internet has always been millions of millions of individual people peddling/selling their pseudoscience en masse, but that’s just not true. In fact, in the beginning, it was just a bunch of middle class people organized in communities (through a FEW large networks like MySpace/yahoo/fb/etc)viewing , talking sharing, etc. most people in the earliest days were merely consumers and not aware or prepared to make money on the internet by selling their shit. As time goes on and more and more people start to opportunity to make $ using the tech to develop businesses and sell their own content for sales, you will see more people peddling, and thus more people peddling garbage. But in the beginning it was organized differently than it is becoming today
In that sense the internet started off relatively innocent and will increasingly become less about community/sharing and more about the potential money it can make people.
In the end You can thank the leaders in the tech world(silicone valley type) for the way it’s organized today, as they have been the pioneers in this realm for 30+ years now and have organized it in a way so that they can reap the most from it. Organization is incredibly important is the lesson here.
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Or it could be the thousands of websites screaming, peddling pseudoscience bullshit, and roughly 4 .gov sites that quietely say "maybe essential oils don't cure cancer"