Did I not say?

I'm sure I did.

In fact, yes, I did ... Facebook, Google, QAnon ...

Without him, the Eternal September ¹ of the ̶s̶p̶o̶t̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ mindless would never have happened.

AOL and Compuserve were bad enough, but all you had to do was avoid them and it was all good.

Now look at it ... the Web means everyone and their ̶d̶o̶g̶ cat is on the f*cking thing, ruining it for everyone else.

Seriously ... he meant well, but, like the inventor in Bradbury's The Flying Machine ², he just didn't think things through — dogooders are just as bad as (if not worse than) the evil: they don't mean to cause harm, but they do nevertheless (their hubris is all that matters to them, not the price the rest of us will pay for it³).

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¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_september

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Machine_(short_story)

³ At least Icarus paid the price himself.