Thanks for Ruining the Mexican Internet, Millennials Callodehacha - Fusion
go to original September 24, 2016

In 2012, nobody in Mexico believed that the internet would become “the next big thing,” not even the large brands, or the TV networks, or the newspapers (which, if you were born after 1995, are those rolls of paper you use to kill flies), or the magazines (which, if you were born after 1995, are kind of like an internet page but on paper).

Only a group of young people chose to believe in the internet because we had no option and to us the internet was a way into doing what we loved. We were very ambitious, an essential trait of success, something that hadn’t been seen in Mexico for many years. And I was one of those youngsters. Four years ago, the internet represented freedom of expression in the fullest sense of the term. There was no such thing as the Thought Police and it wasn’t monitored by groups of moralists who made sure that the mainstream groups would be comfortable with what minority groups were publishing. There wasn’t self-censorship or political correctness. But now it’s a completely different story.

On the internet of 2016, there are concepts such as common enemies and good and bad people. There are new taboos, things we shouldn’t speak of, and a clearly defined list of people who we all must hate (it’s unacceptable not to). And there are people who we must love. Personal opinions and critiques are always acceptable so long as they are aligned with the progressive agenda.

Censorship isn’t something imposed on us by Televisa or by the government anymore, now we bring it on ourselves through our obsession with being politically correct. On the internet of 2016, we are all vegans, macrobiotics, feminists, pansexuals, inclusive, and we all vote for liberal causes. There are big consequences if you are perceived as the enemy.

The internet of 2016 is authoritarian and it is never okay to bully anyone except for those who annoy us (or who don’t think like the majority of us). There’s no problem attacking those people; all you need to do is Google “Peña Nieto,” “Nicolas Alvarado” or “Donald Trump” to figure out who the acceptable targets are.

The “shaming generation” has taken over the reins of cyberspace, and those groups that once seemed to be the champions of tolerance and freedom of expression are now the same ones that become completely scandalized if you vote for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico’s ruling party “PRI”), or if you don’t like Juan Gabriel (before you all get offended, I should clarify that I like him as well). This generation plans to persecute and punish people on public platforms and humiliate everyone who likes bullfights (not me), or those that dare to claim that African children are more important than street dogs. On the internet of 2016, animals have more human rights than humans themselves, and being obese doesn’t mean you are at greater risk of a heart attack or of a metabolic syndrome—it just means you’re “beautiful.”

The guardians of public morality dictate how and when it is okay to comment on something, and what God we should to pray to. This is why I have started to believe that 2016 is the year were we started to take a turn for the worse on the information superhighway.

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