• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    2 months ago

    Found this interesting Pew study about the internet from 1 year after 9/11:

    https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2002/09/05/one-year-later-september-11-and-the-internet-2/

    Take it with a grain of salt, I think it comes off as a little overly optimistic, especially given some of the dire things it talks about (massive support for giving away our freedoms, etc).

    I did just see at the bottom that there’s literally 8 pages, and I was basing all that on just the first page so maybe I’ll read more or at least skim through the rest.

    Edit: holy shit (from pg 2):

    • EggZackLee@lemmy.today
      1·
      2 months ago

      Aside from the outcome, it’s crazy that in 2001 there were still enough “Internet non-users” to make gathering data on them statistically significant