r/Internet

If you could change the Internet to one image for 24 hours, what would you choose and why?

Using famous Kardashians as an example:

As I came across a post that mentions that KK porn (or clip that made her famous), vanished from the web.

How can someone delete content so it’s not searchable anymore, basically delete from the Web?

furthermore how can you make sure it won’t get re uploaded by someone who downloaded it?

How rich do you need to be to control the internet in that matter?

I mean why are there so many weird and creepy people on the internet? In any social apps you go, no matter you make personal account or fake account, you will definitely get those creepy messages from some weird people. Every time I try to make a profile and account, starting to share my life and moments, I soon regret it and delete the account. Ah this makes me feel even more alone in this world!

There's a role playing website called Aniroleplay that is doing illegal things. First the admins are friends with a bully on the site that if you report him YOU get banned.

So here's what happened. I was on this site and ran into this bully. He thinks if he likes your character that you are obligated to RP with him. Go against him and he blasts you. If you report him either nothing is done, or your account gets banned. I was doing a RP with someone else that he wanted to RP with so he started harassing me and my RP partner. I at first just ignored him but he would not stop. He was constantly posting lies about me telling people not to add me as a friend.

I didn't block his main account (he has several others) because I was watching what he was saying about me. I took screenshots after he said enough incriminating stuff and turned him in. Here's where the site itself showed it was protecting him the first time. They instead of doing anything to him logged in to MY account and blocked him. I noticed it because at first I couldn't see his account anymore. So I figured he was gone. But then I had another friend tell me no his account was still there. I went into my blocked users list and there he was blocked. I did NOT block him myself. The admins had logged in and blocked him.

I unblocked him and about two weeks later he was blocked mysteriously again. I unblocked him again. He was still saying things about me on his live feed by the way. I was not saying or posted ANYTHING about him. Then one morning I get up and go to login and MY account had been suspended.

I did nothing to break TOS what so ever. But I was punished because I unblocked their little choir boy. I made a new account and it was suspended the next day.

But there's more. The admins doxxed someone else. Yes it was someone that was being harassed by this same person. She posted something about him and one of the admins commented on her post calling her a liar and literally had traced her IP and told on a live status what city she lived in.

I know this is all illegal. The thing is I don't know what to do. The site needs to be investigated and the corrupt admins need to be removed.

Hey all I'm going to be purposely a bit vague because I don't want to violate this reddits rules but I've found a massive problem and I need as many eyes on it as possible.

I was watching a video from a rather large channel Gameranx and saw some bot comments (which I will share and have reported myself) but due to the nature of the content that channels linked to this bot accounts being profiles with full on adult content as their profile pictures and linking to porn websites in their bios I want to handle this as sensitively as possible.

Really think this needs to be brought to the attention of YouTube as I really don't want young people on YouTube being 1 click away from adult content

This is... probably a pretty controversial take. Don't get me wrong there's absolutely some things I miss about the internet in the 2000s & 2010s, like the almost entirely human-generated content, and less monetization/spying/corporate control etc. It did feel like it belonged to the people. But just now I was looking at an old forum thread from 2010, and it reminded me of how ugly the overall landscape of the internet was. I just thought maybe I'd post my own two cents since I know a lot of people wish the internet would go back to the way it was.

It was a thread about animal abuse in the old Swiss Family Robinson movie, and apart from a handful of comments, it was full of people fighting, hurling personal insults, telling each other to commit suicide, going off on unhinged tangents about unrelated sensitive things like birth control and serial murder, and looking into my memory of the internet when I was a kid, it matched the majority of online discourse I saw. It was ugly, sadistic, and devoid of actual insight or good faith criticism.

I was diagnosed with autism at age 3 and remember when the worst thing a person could be was autistic. It was a common insult on the internet. People often called each other autistic to say you're a degenerate, a mistake of nature, you fail at everything you try, you shouldn't exist, you should kill yourself. Same if you were LGBT. It really wrecked my self-esteem. I would tell the adults in my life how messed up it was, and they'd always be like "they're just trolling, just ignore them". If you said it online you were "soft and weak and would never survive in the real world" even though in the "real world" people didn't talk to each other like that because they knew they'd get beaten up for it.

Sometimes I look at places like Reddit and YouTube and marvel at how civilized they are now. People actually treat each other like human beings and are able to have intelligent conversations. You can watch videos from anime and furry conventions, and the comments aren't full of death threats and slurs. You aren't always one click away from seeing a mutilated dead body or terrorist attack against your will because someone thought it was a funny punchline for a meme. There's not so much religious intolerance everywhere. Ragebait still exists, but it is much more obvious and tends to use stupidity more than bigotry. I don't know what happened. Maybe people's sensibilities changed. Maybe it's the "dead internet theory" and these supposedly decent people are bots. Maybe cancel culture, as awful as it was, made people think their actions online would have consequences. All I know is that now, for once, I can finally surf the web without feeling like the world wants me dead.

These days I keep hearing people say stuff like, "I miss the old internet, it was so pure and creative and free", and I wonder if we were both using the same Internet. They're kind of right, I guess, there were good things about it. But beneath all the lolcat memes, the Newgrounds cartoons, the silly little PowerPoint slideshows set to Wake Me Up Inside, the Warrior cat OCs, the magical wolf roleplay forums, it was a consequence-free environment with loose morals, where people often chose to be their worst selves. I don't know, I just feel like people see it through rose-colored glasses and it's a bit annoying.

The internet was never perfect. Honestly, I kind of feel like we've traded in one set of problems for another with the internet, but I think I prefer the set of problems we have now to the ones we had back then. It's a bit more cynical, it's more corporate, more artificial, but at least it doesn't make me want to die every time I use it. In fact, I think there is more room for creative expression online today than there was in the past, but not as many people choose to do it. My hope is that one day we can have an internet that blends the old and the new together.

so I’ve been having issues with my internet I have the 1 gig plan for spectrum and only getting 25 Mbps for download and 2.9 mbps for upload I’ve already filled an fcc complaint and I am getting very frustrated over it plus it feels like there is no reliable providers that can like give me good service so I can play smoothly online and download games in secconds

With networks expanding and 5G rolling out, Vi's idea of an "equal network for all" feels relevant.

Most of us depend on mobile internet for work, payments, travel, and entertainment every day.

Do you think reliable connectivity is now as essential as electricity and water?

I plan on starting a dedicated gaming server that will connect hundreds of players, I'm already gonna get the best Hardware money can buy for the server.

does anyone know any site where I can watch movies and series for free

It is an interactive comedy database and visualization tool that maps the interconnected relationships between Saturday Night Live (SNL) alumni, the projects they have worked on (movies, TV shows), and their creative collaborators.

I need help with my internet. I pay for Xfinity “1000 up/down” but it’s horrible. I play a lot of competitive video games & I live with my brother and when we’re both playing together it is just unplayable.

I ran a couple speed tests and I’m getting 300-500 down 100 up. However, I am getting constant lag spikes in game. I’m on low ping, no packet loss but I’m skipping all over the game.

Any idea? What can I do?

I am having a lot of issues with my internet and VOIP home phone so considering changing my ISP. I currently have 250 MBPS speed.

The new ISP told me their connection is plug and play and they will send to me a modem that I will connect with the wall. The speed would be 300 mbps.

My question is can I use the cable that’s connected to the wire with the new modem with faster speed internet.

In prep for the new internet I have tried to disconnect the cable which is connected to a slot in the wall on one side and my current router on the other side but its tuck and is not budging.

Any, all advice is welcome. A big thanks!