National Security & Defense

Even for the well-intentioned user (as opposed to trolls/disruptors/bad actors/scammers/spambots) it is a dicey proposition wrt unintended consequences.

I am expectantly awaiting a book coming out in Jan 2025 by a tech critic I respect, Nicholas Carr. It is about about how improvements in connectivity actually make understanding harder:
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=9258
Very timely.

It really does seem to be better to plead the fifth metaphorically wrt a lot of internet posting (unless you know what you are talking about/doing).

Any technology or instrument (and the net is sort of an instrument, if a rather inelegant, unwieldy and fugly one) should be used with care…