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I link to this far too often, but it's relevant to so many discussions had on this site. The Great On-Line Equalizer Date: 21 Mar 1996 https://subg
by nickysielicki 11y ago
I link to this far too often, but it's relevant to so many discussions had on this site.
The Great On-Line Equalizer
Date: 21 Mar 1996
https://subgenius.com/bigfist/answers/articles2/X0095_The_Great_On-Line_Eq.html
Relevant quote:
"""
All the people who are invisible in the normal world (the world
run by the rich and powerful), all those people you can dismiss
on the street as powerless and harmless -- ALL THOSE PEOPLE are
now in your face.
You can feel their hot breath on the Internet.
"""
It seems the more we become intertwined with the Internet, the more we start feeling their hot breath in real life. Or at least, the more we notice it.
- untog 11y agoI'm not sure how much that applies here. Killers with manifestos have always existed, it has little to do with the internet. They were always in people's faces because, well, they killed people and left manifestos. Where the internet does come into its own is allowing these disturbed people to find other like-minded (like-disturbed?) people, and feed off each other's misery, perhaps making them more likely to kill.
- 0x49 11y agoThis quote has a lot of truth to it. I think the issue we now face is that it gives EVERYBODY power. Even people that shouldn't ever have it in the first place. Many of these hashtag protests are purely based on emotion and in some instances, don't even have enough information to make a claim either way (or are based on rumor/false information). This is why our court systems were invented in the first place: to prevent mobs of people from attacking innocent individuals and calling it 'justice'.