I love [read: hate] how the media constantly tries to blame the internet for whatever it is that they think is wrong with the world. Last night on Channel 7 news, there was a story that started like this:
The internet has been blamed for a 13-year-old girl running away with a man twice her age
It seems they met in a chat room.
Just for fun, let’s see how that sentence sounds when we replace the word
internet with a dictionary definition I just copied from dictionary.com:
A computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange has been blamed for a 13-year-old girl running away with a man twice her age.
It’s hard to point out exactly how stupid an assertion this is without sounding patronising.
So I wont.
I merely draw the phenomenon to your attention.
Thank you.
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