Unfortunately most people that become popular by whipping up outrage only really know how to continue doing that to stay visible. It's much easier to identify o

Unfortunately most people that become popular by whipping up outrage only really know how to continue doing that to stay visible. It's much easier to identify open problems than to solve them; this is why they remain open problems. Stallman is actually a very prominent exception to this. Not only did he whip up outrage but he then created a principled movement behind his outrage and push forward progress in his ideas. While I do think he lost the plot a bit recently, most don't even get half as far. (I always found that a bit ironic about Doctorow. He identifies problems with social media but uses its preferred form of virality to spread his own message.)