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Social Media signaling and amplification might produce some momentary storm area 51 or storm the capital madness but it hasnt produced any Mandela or Gandhi or
by kop34huyt 5y ago
Social Media signaling and amplification might produce some momentary storm area 51 or storm the capital madness but it hasnt produced any Mandela or Gandhi or Lenin type pressure on govts that is going to cause collapse. Lots of fools will get thrown in jail or thrown of the networks.
Its more of a nuissance than a danger imho. The herd has the attention span and power of fruit flies and the powers that be on all sides know it.
- rsj_hn 5y agoIt's certainly not a threat to governments but it can be a threat to individuals. Some of the looting/mob attacks were coordinated on social media and the mobbing phenomenon is real and can have real world consequences. Of course governments aren't going to fall because the world isn't 1789 anymore. Just burning down a building isn't going to change the government because authority is not tied to buildings. Neither can you break into a bank, burn records of debts, and have your debts wiped clean. But that doesn't mean that you can't organize a mob to attack a courthouse in Portland or harass a judge; while this isn't going to overturn any verdicts, it will cause real damage to people and property.
- zozbot234 5y ago> it hasnt produced any Mandela or Gandhi or Lenin type pressure on govts that is going to cause collapse. Yeah, right. Except that Trump, Johnson, Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte etc. etc. are increasingly looking like they just might be the new Mandela, Gandhi and Lenin. Isn't democracy great?