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The founder of 4Chan said: "My personal private life is very separate from my Internet life ... There's a firewall in between." http://www.guardian.co.uk/techn
by adrianwaj 18y ago
The founder of 4Chan said:
"My personal private life is very separate from my Internet life ... There's a firewall in between." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/20/internet.google http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/20/internet.go...
and here in this article Jason Fortuny calls himself "a normal person who does insane things on the Internet."
In both cases, they separate their screen lives with their non-screen lives. But, the mind is the same that moves between the two, except that there are two separate levels of morality that habituate according to the mind's sensory context.
So what lies in the mind at the border between the two moralities: shame, fear, hate and intolerance.
- pg 18y agoI find it clarifies things to filter statements like "My personal private life is very separate from my Internet life" and "a normal person who does insane things on the Internet" through the rule: "Judge talent at its best and character at its worst."
- adrianwaj 18y agoIn that case would you say Weev has lots of talent and seriously bad character, in which case his "destroy others around him to build himself up" philosophy is the result?
- Hexstream 18y agoThose people "with a firewall" hurt people in real life with their "virtual" selves, crossing the real-world/virtual border, but I have a feeling they'd be the first to whine if someone retaliated in real life (in a more or less civil way) for what their "virtual" selves did. What hypocrisy.
- jackchristopher 18y agoHumans have a tendency to compartmentalize themselves. It's an inherent cognitive bias. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/01/outside_the_lab.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/01/outside_the_lab.html