> Responses always seem out of proportion because media coverage creates attention and makes people reconsider longstanding issues. Responses are out of propor

> Responses always seem out of proportion because media coverage creates attention and makes people reconsider longstanding issues. Responses are out of proportion because the media hugely distorts and misleads on every single topic in service of the goal of getting more shares. They'll always try and give a view that is as interesting/outrageous/satisfying as possible, using phrasing and selective ommissions. Then people hear those stories and relay the insinuations rather than the actual reported facts (news media is generally very good at conveying X while only literally stating Y, Vice was unusually crude and shoddy this time). The post I am replying to is an excellent example of the end result of this game of telephone. > believing victims He didn't disbelieved them in the quote. > there is no fucking way you are oblivious to people being coerced into sex this visiting Epsteins Island, just none On what basis are you saying this? > When RMS does his church of emacs skit and keeps pointing at a young woman in the audience whenever he says the word virgin This is the kind of thing where it's very easy for stories and memories to get distorted. > when people literally cover their offices in plants because Stallman doesn't like them Yet another one of the hugely exaggerated rumours...