Originally Posted by
JSnuffMARS
Or maybe you want to prove that browsing cat pictures is actually beneficial (how?).
One form of entertainment is here offered to the user.
It's a tool, a tool that can be used however the clients want it to be, from setting up servers to accessing servers. What then are stored on these servers could be anything that these users want it to be.
It's a tool that can be used in a wide variety of ways; from stealing money in the deep web from people who are way in over their head, commit fraud and crime, watch some sort of entertainment videos, access music and access information beyond using it as a communication relay.
Now, browsing cat images is no different from going over cat pictures from last years cat-exhibition, or looking at pictures of your neighbors cat. The difference is the opportunity to do so and the sheer amount of images available to you as some users have set up communication-links that allows you to access pictures of cats from all over the world, and this tool is right at your fingertips. What could have taken a lifetime to accumulate takes minutes.
This goes for everything from the internet, just because information is available in one form does not mean it's actually valued the same way as for example a lecture in mechanical science, as there you could ask the questions directly to the lecturer, and if you don't get the answer to your question on the first go-around, this person also happens to be educated to handle your questions through having studied pedagogic methods and hopefully having a immense knowledge-pool within the subject at hand.
Now, the internet being a tool means it can be used however its users want it to be used. It's no difference in committing fraud on papers than it is on a server as you edit something you are not allowed to edit in the first place, and until the world realizes this fact we are in a limbo state where we don't handle the opportunity given with enough care compared to the imminent risks at hand for using it.
EDIT: And for some reason people hand out information about themselves on the internet that they don't wanna share with their neighbors... Talking about not understanding risk versus gain.