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In the past you had to call the landline and risk getting *69ed, or use a payphone or something. Now, you can just sit at home in your underwear and tweet out a
by muststopmyths 3y ago
In the past you had to call the landline and risk getting *69ed, or use a payphone or something. Now, you can just sit at home in your underwear and tweet out a death threat.
I think they were probably taken as seriously before, it's just that the ease of making threats (empty or not) is different now.
- robswc 3y agoThat's fair. I just have memories of being on forums and interacting with those people you knew where unhinged. They had the protection of anonymity... but I think you have a great point that even then, you had to have at least a bit of technical know how to join a forum. Not so with twitter, so the barrier to entry is much lower.