In Neal Stephenson’s new novel Fall or Dodge in Hell (spoiler alert), social media becomes all powerful. A tool is created to bombard so much artificially creat

In Neal Stephenson’s new novel Fall or Dodge in Hell (spoiler alert), social media becomes all powerful. A tool is created to bombard so much artificially created negative content about a person being cyber bullied, that the effect is to drown out all real condemnation, thus removing the social media collective’s power over that person. Sounds like an effective mechanism to potentially remove mass murderer’s ability to effectively communicate their reasons or beliefs. Since effective gun control in the US is impossible, it’s going to be out of the box ideas like this that might end up actually helping (besides god forbid some real focus on mental health in this country).