The Purpose of developing new technologies is not usually to suppress free thought but is instead to facilitate the process of creating and connecting to new things.
The Internet then is just not cutting it. By way of advertisement and censorship, the internet is actually limiting our scope of the world instead of helping us connect to different things.
Advertising
By tracking internet history, Google and other corporations can customize ads to suit your needs. This process seems like it’s doing good and is helping the consumer consume. But in fact it can be detrimental to exploration of different things.
For example, by typing shoes into a google search and roaming the sites, the advertisers will automatically link these sorts of interests to your IP address.
Censorship
Constant exposure is just as bad as limited exposure.
Yes. It can be argued that censorship of inappropriate material for children is good however, when it comes to educational topics and realms of information, censorship is terrible.
For example, China censor’s it’s own history. Most notably, they censor the google searches of Tiananmen Square and the massacre that occured there.
From this image, you can see that there is a clear intention to prevent users from seeing the truth.
What do these things have to do with creativity and exploration?
They stunt it. A society run by these methods will be stagnant in growth and exploration of new things.