The idea that governments and tech companies are pushing AI services and internet regulations to create an internet where users can be easily controlled and monitored, using fake accounts to manufacture public consent and polluting discourse that worries the powerful. This decline in organic, user-generated content is “killing” the internet. Related to dead internet theory.
A: “It really sucks you need to ask AI for everything these days. I wish I could just search it online.”
B: “Oh, yeah. That’s intentional. Have you ever heard of Killed Internet Theory?”
B: “Oh, yeah. That’s intentional. Have you ever heard of Killed Internet Theory?”
by ObsolenceBalthazar December 14, 2025
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