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You missed the argument against accountability for ones own words (aka "cancel culture"). To be fair, though, it was kind of shoehorned in. I wonder if it was t
by notreallyserio 5y ago
You missed the argument against accountability for ones own words (aka "cancel culture"). To be fair, though, it was kind of shoehorned in. I wonder if it was the original point of the article?
- helen___keller 5y agoI do think the author made a mistake here: the author credits western 'social controls' to so-called "Neo-paternalist nudge theories", i.e. as if there's some western illiberal thinkers out there that have decided for us that we should collectively police each other socially for the greater good. This couldn't be further from the truth. Those thinkers exist, but they have no power anyways. Cancel culture and other "illiberal" modern activity is actually emergent behavior from strongly connected social networks. It's pure populism. It's just that millions of people go on the internet for the purpose of feeling angry at somebody else on twitter or facebook, and this via the free market results in people losing jobs, people being ostracized, or even the formation of real-life protests and riots.
- threatofrain 5y agoI wouldn't call social media viral phenomena as strongly connected as opposed to broadly connected. Viral media does not require strong connections (people reacting over Twitter or Reddit hardly know each other), and neither is virality obviously boosted by strong connections.