> I mean, look at this picture and tell me how social media’s made this worse: Before you had to get up, go somewhere and protest to get noticed. A lot of peo

> I mean, look at this picture and tell me how social media’s made this worse: Before you had to get up, go somewhere and protest to get noticed. A lot of people agreed with those students that desegregating was outrageous but only the people in the immediate area / willing to travel got noticed/heard. The costs of expressing moral outrage were much larger. Now I can sit on my toilet and express moral outrage about Mozilla's CEO giving money to anti-gay marriage groups or whatever and be seen/heard by the entire world instantly. Thus the volume of moral outrage has been turned up big time. Which was the point of the piece you just dismissed offhand as dumb: "If moral outrage is a fire, is the internet like gasoline?"