The Internet Is So Bad, Some People Are Making Their Own

Private networks dodge public problems

The internet started out as a technological marvel, giving consumers virtually unlimited access to information, as well as potential for human connection. Today, however, the internet is also a place where Stoneman Douglas shooting survivor David Hogg is a crisis actor, the Sandy Hook shooting is a vast gun-control conspiracy, President Obama was born in Kenya and it’s still possible the earth is flat.

The internet, in a word, sucks. And that’s in part why some people—including at least one who helped build it—are fleeing to their own alternate internet multiverses.

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