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>I have no idea what happened The fundamentals of free speech are just easier to uphold when the forum (Internet) is much smaller and the participants (hacker
by whymauri 6y ago
>I have no idea what happened
The fundamentals of free speech are just easier to uphold when the forum (Internet) is much smaller and the participants (hacker culture, chat rooms) are more uniform. Both the size of the forum and the diversity of the participants has changed - that's what happened.
- 8note 6y agoI'm not sure the diversity matter so much as the scale. Once you've got a very large audience, it becomes possible to scale abuse on it. When each community is small, you have to put in a lot more work to say, spread disinformation so there's natural censorship on it.
- dboreham 6y agoPut another way: humans evolved living in fairly small groups that were often related to each other. Their brains are optimized to operate in that environment. Put those brains into an environment where the number of other humans is orders of magnitude larger and most of those other humans are not physically present and not related to you and...that brain doesn't work well.