{"id":21299,"date":"2025-12-21T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/should-we-turn-the-internet-off\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:37:34","slug":"should-we-turn-the-internet-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/should-we-turn-the-internet-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we turn the internet off?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue world<\/p>\n

The internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy \u2013 from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face to-face-contact, audiotapes and Ansaphones? What would we miss about the online world that is worth the risk to liberal culture and basic freedoms? Mees Visser, Groningen, Netherlands<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue world
\nThe internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy \u2013 from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face to-face-contact, audiotapes and Ansaphones? What would we miss about the online world that is worth the risk to liberal culture and basic freedoms? Mees Visser, Groningen, Netherlands
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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue world The internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy \u2013 from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and …<\/p>\n

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