A quick note: I would never reduce the internet to the purely political, attempt to anthropomorphize it, or characterize it in a way that gives total agency to the acts of users within the binary of a political framework. This would completely go against everything I’ve been saying for a while now. Let’s just call this a thought experiment, a particular example of something I have found to be animating under very limited circumstances.
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