Opinions are how physical violence starts. Do you think the Myanmar genocide would have happened without a robust system of demonization and distortion beforeha

Opinions are how physical violence starts. Do you think the Myanmar genocide would have happened without a robust system of demonization and distortion beforehand? Now you might say the only way to counter that is with more speech, but the problem many are voicing is that the modern internet has vastly changed the geometry of society. The graph of social interaction looks different today than it has at any point in human history mostly because of these amplification algorithms. There wasn’t some glorious point in the past where one weirdo with a huge hate of a minority could get their distortive content broadcast for free to the most credulous fraction of the population. Before the social internet your options were to talk to people nearby, mail it to people, or find someone with resources (a newspaper) willing to send it to people. We changed the world. It isn’t crazy that a changed world might need different guardrails to prevent tragedy