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The book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson, is an excellent look at this topic. He interviews a number of people who have been the focus of such "
by rossdavidh 5y ago
The book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" by Jon Ronson, is an excellent look at this topic. He interviews a number of people who have been the focus of such "mob attacks", and spends enough time on each to show how they happen, and what the long term results are. It's an oddly thoughtful and reflective look at thoughtless and unreflective behavior.
- JeremyNT 5y agoNot only is "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" an excellent book that demonstrates Ronson's immense empathy, it came out way back in 2015 when the problem was far less obvious. Ronson saw this all coming, and he warned us about what being attacked on the Internet can do to the real humans on the other side of the keyboard, who are far from the one-dimensional monsters that social media witch hunts tend to portray them as.