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Internet fuckwads are fine as long as they stay limited to their own communities. What you and I deem a 'fuckwad' will vary greatly. While somebody spamming 'h
by cc-d 7y ago
Internet fuckwads are fine as long as they stay limited to their own communities.
What you and I deem a 'fuckwad' will vary greatly. While somebody spamming 'hitler did nothing wrong' is certainly a fuckwad, it is only an issue which this fuckwadry is exposed to those who were not expressively looking for it.
I see zero issues in fuckwads congregating if they stick to themselves.
- dlp211 7y agoThe issue is they never do.
- Y_Y 7y agoThat seems like a selection bias. You never see the ones who keep to themselves.
- dlp211 7y agoIt doesn't matter if some of them keep to themselves. What matters is that those communities continuously spill out and if that has detrimental effects. I contend that they do and they have. In addition to that, allowing those communities to exist legitimizes them and allows them to recruit impressionable people. The combination of these two things lead to things like gamergate and "doing it for the lulz" and ends with things like the march in Charlottesville and the El Paso shooting.
- fragmede 7y agoWe're someone else's fuckwads. We all hope the troll spewing "Hitler did nothing wrong" learns better somehow, but there isn't a quick and effective "somehow". The Internet enables us to connect with people all over the world, or at least the English-speaking world, but all we've constructed is more echoey echo chambers. Fuckwads sticking together is how we got to the current state of politics. Someday, someone smart is going to figure out how to do better than deleting/hiding fuckwads' comments and giving them their own echo chamber. It's the best solution we have now, but it's a pretty bad one.