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> It is possible that the Internet has increased politically motivated killings, but articles making broad judgement on all of society based on a couple of anec
by twtw 8y ago
> It is possible that the Internet has increased politically motivated killings, but articles making broad judgement on all of society based on a couple of anecdotes without proper data is just sensationalist nonsense.
I don't see where the author makes "broad judgement of all society." I see an opinion piece, which explicitly calls out in the text it's opinionness ("that's how I've come to feel about the Internet") in which the author claims that the Internet "creates terrorists."
This is not an argument that needs statistics or data to back it up - if the Internet creates even one terrorist, then the author's statements hold. The author provides not one, but several examples to support the claim.
It's like you are refuting the headline only, or some adversarial interpretation of the article.
- username90 8y agoThe headline sets the tone so you can't just ignore it. If he starts off with an extremely strong headline like "The Internet Will Be the Death of Us" then the article should have strong enough arguments to warrant it, otherwise the headline is just the kind of misinformation that he himself is lamenting in this very article.