I had considered a much longer criticism of this article, but I soon realized that there was no sense in complaining about a service which is no longer &quot;<i>ours</i>.&quot;   The internet of today (Internet 2.x), is little more than an <i>advertising space</i>, a vehicle through which users mistakenly approach as an encyclopedia housing the world&#x27;s information, while in actuality, the user is product.<p>So I&#x27;ll just touch on one point instead: <i>Humor</i><p>&gt; &quot;But Mrgan insists it hasn’t led to sterile, sanitised comments. “People are still making jokes, being a little bit snarky, getting really opinionated,” she says. “The personal attacks, name-calling and abuse have gone, but the same feel has really stayed.”&quot;<p>Has Mrgan ever been to Reddit, the site so bold as to deem itself &quot;The Front Page of the Internet&quot; before?   I absolutely disagree with her insistence.   
While the information is often great in some specialty areas, the humor is completely dry, <i>overly snarky</i>, and most users appear (caveat: <i>IMO</i>) to be treading on eggshells in avoidance of &quot;Being downvoted&quot; and having their comment hidden from the world.<p>If you were to go to a standup comedy show, you would see a _plethora_ of philosophically different types of humor.   Deprecating humor, Self-deprecating humor, sarcasm, parody, allegorical comedy, etc. etc.<p>The &quot;new internet&quot; is in the process of filtering out most of this.  To repeat my caveat, this is all my opinion, but a sterile Internet very quickly only reduces itself to plain sarcasm and snark, and honestly, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.<p>Back in the &quot;good old days&quot; During the 90&#x27;s and the 00&#x27;s, the <i>onus was on the user</i> his-or-herself to ignore and filter out toxic behavior.  And it&#x27;s a shame I&#x27;m saying this in my 20s.