Nope. More like that covid was a watershed event for a lot of things - sometimes it was used as a divider decidedly, sometimes it just happened accidentally.
I trust that the complete siloing of the internet belongs to the latter - the internet was much more open and diverse before 2020 compared to
today (at least when you look at what you can easily see, without taking a very deep dive - "funnily" there is almost no need to setup Tor to hide from clear-net)
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Nope. More like that covid was a watershed event for a lot of things - sometimes it was used as a divider decidedly, sometimes it just happened accidentally. I trust that the complete siloing of the internet belongs to the latter - the internet was much more open and diverse before 2020 compared to today (at least when you look at what you can easily see, without taking a very deep dive - "funnily" there is almost no need to setup Tor to hide from clear-net)