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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

Readers reply: should we turn the internet off?

Retro typewriter and old telephone on the table, checkbook, ink pen
Was the old-tech world a better one? Who would turn back the clock? Photograph: Kirill Ikonnikov/Getty Images

The internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy – from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face to-face-contact, audiotapes and Ansaphones? What would we miss about the online world that is worth the risk to liberal culture and basic freedoms? Should we turn the internet off? Mees Visser, Groningen, the Netherlands

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