... growth models of new technologies, networks, pyramid (ponzi) schemes, cancer tumours and pandemic spreads are identical. It's the maths of exponential growth.
It doesn't mean Internet == Cancer. Only a moron would say that. A network that provides a valuable service to participants for being connected to it is on the same spectrum as a network that provides only minimal positive benefit (or is exploitative) of it's participants (like fiat monetary systems that are enforced coercively) and on net extract value from the majority of participants.
Pyramid schemes, fiat money, bitcoin and all monetary systems are networks with a basis in a temporally-limited, subjective-value, marketable unit.
Actually I can produce all the examples your little heart desires to prove the internet is cancer. Cancer of the mind. Those that think they don’t have to have accountability. Yes the comparison is valid