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Bring it on. I would welcome the demise of the internet.

The internet is pretty much dead, anyway. People use it for games and commerce, but as an information and communication tool, it is pretty much dead. Anyone who remembers the internet from the 90s, for example, will remember it as the Wild West. It was truly free, and people could say what they wanted, no matter how distasteful or unpopular. Search engines returned actual legitimate returns, rather than ads or algorithm-influenced psy-ops.

And discussion forums had real people in them who gave real opinions. Now, I would wager that something approaching half of all such traffic are bots or paid "influencers". Even here on FR, we seem to have a significant population of shills.

We'd all be better off just reading a book and then heading down to the pub.