Das Internet muss weg

A fundamental reckoning with the internet from one of the most influential bloggers in the country. None other than Schlecky Silberstein, a cult figure in the online community, promotes this guiding principle: "The internet must go." The blogger and online comedian knows the web like the back of his hand. And precisely for this reason, he warns against it. Thanks to fake news, filter bubbles, and social bots, corporations, political decision-makers, and criminals are increasingly gaining control over large parts of humanity. Schlecky Silberstein analyzes the "data casino capitalism," in which our data is deliberately used as a commodity to predict and influence our behavior. Not only did Donald Trump know how to utilize him on his path to power, but our own society also risks being directed by programmable propaganda machines. Can we find a responsible way to engage with the internet?.