Flaming hot take: the Internet was better in the past because only developed nations had access to it. As soon as mobile phones lowered the barrier to entry and BRIC countries and the like had easy access to it, the quality of everything plummeted. The amount of bad actors that flooded into the system was astronomical.
Hot countertake: No nation has a monopoly on jackasses and the majority of problems in my life caused by misinformation on the Internet came from my fellow Americans.
