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* Casual games have been ruining video games since 2006 due to Nintendo's Wii console, which is what many fans will say. Never mind the fact that there were ''always'' casual games on the market. Nintendo just capitalized on it in order to make up for their poor sales of the N64 and [[Game Cube]] while still appealing to their old core fanbase by making games like ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''. And, of course, it's not like the Sony Eye Toy didn't try to do the same thing... it just didn't do it as well.
** This also becomes a little funny when you look at a couple magazines who now trash games like [[Wii Sports]] and say they are the death of gaming...whereas in the past; they had ''praised'' the Eye Toy as being a new and innovative way to approach gaming. Likewise, ''nobody'' seemed to have had any issues with ''Arcade'' games that had done it ''long'' before.
* According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20090430204937/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118001582.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2562 this story] published in ''Variety'' magazine in March 2009, London-based media research company Screen Digest has calmly announced that free online TV (both pirated and ad-supported legal) is the single greatest threat to broadcast media. The thrust of the article seems to be that since it is so much easier to watch television online on your own schedule, there's little reason to view broadcast media with all of its ads and often arbitrary scheduling. In other words, the internet is offering a better product in the same way television offered a better product than radio -- and that this is a bad, bad, ''terrible'' thing that Must Be Stopped because it threatens the profits of an established business model.
* In her [http://light.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/reading-100-from-the-nobel-lecture-of-doris-lessing/ Nobel lecture]{{Dead link}}, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing calmly implied that the almost instant arrival of the Internet (in historical terms) has fatally wounded writing and literature.
** Well, it's probably brought down the ''average'' quality of all writing published somewhere hugely, [[Sturgeon's Law|but...]]
* This also extends to the New Media itself, when attempts to commercialize it are effectively resisted by its users, such as commercial pop-ups being countered by pop-up blockers (which are currently built into every major browser) and other software that cleans ads from web pages (such as the Adblock Plus extension to Mozilla Firefox). Various industry groups are constantly hand-wringing about how this is "theft of service" and how it will bring about the death of the Internet. Because, as we all know, the Internet was built on the rock-solid foundation of advertisement before those pie-in-the-sky scientists and academics got their hands on it.
** By the late 2010s this has escalated to the point that many major browsers have or are planning to have ad- and popup-blockers as ''built-in features'' -- and some websites (like TV Tropes and Salon.com) are fighting back by either actively trying to disable a users's ad-blocking or by blackmailing them with either reduced content or by forcing their browsers to mine cryptocurrency when an ad-blocker is detected. Less technically adept sites often resort to simple guilt trips by displaying "you're stealing from us and we'll shortly go out of business" messages when ads are blocked.
* [http://www.fstdt.com/fundies/comments.aspx?q=52575 "The internet is Satan's domain!"]{{Dead link}} -- [[Hypocritical Humour|posted, of course, by someone on the internet.]]
* Due to problems associated with abuse of certain applications of cell phones, some school districts have banned them entirely.
** This isn't the first time, either; back in the late 1980s and early 1990s (when they were bulky and expensive) having a cell phone at school could get you ''arrested'', thanks to the War on Drugs. [[Insane Troll Logic|The thinking went that "rich people have cell phones, drug dealers are rich people, so people with cell phones are drug dealers..."]] You can practically use that argument to call for the arrest of rich people. Nowadays, the bans are more because students were using them to cheat on tests (text each other answers, store info, etc) and have proven themselves unable to ''shut them off'' and not text during class.
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* Another fun thing: ''Regelrecht'', a TV show by the Dutch TROS, is now starting a public campaign to get libraries to ban access to sex and violence. Of course they aren't talking about books on violent killers or the erotic literature section, they mean access to the internet.
* [http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/28/michigan-considers-law-license-journalists/ There have been some attempts to make a blogger] [http://bigjournalism.com/jlakely/2010/04/29/troubling-precedent-nj-court-says-bloggers-are-not-journalists/ not have the same rights as a journalist].
* Then there's a ''Maclean's'' magazine article called [https://web.archive.org/web/20130422193854/http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20061030_135406_135406 the Internet sucks] (the author calls that "[[Acceptable Targets|terms crude enough for all cyber-dwellers to grasp]]") which is blatantly one-sided in its [[Accentuate the Negative|focus on mainstream Internet culture's flaws]] and [[You Fail Logic Forever|guilt-by-association approach towards an entire medium]].
* ''[[Doctor Phil|Dr. Phil]]'' has this trope every few episodes, usually focusing on 1) Children who are kidnapped by some stranger they met on the internet and 2) Children who spend too much time on the internet or texting.
* Some years ago, a Danish nerd created a website called "Lej en Lejemorder". Which translates to "Book an Assassin". [[Stealth Parody|The Danish media thought he was serious]]. Much controversy about the internet ensued. (And apparently, the guy also got some serious emails from people who actually did want someone to be assassinated.)
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