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Yes, they do, it just takes longer to enact what was coordinated. There's no fundamental difference between a conversation in a meadow and one online.
by big-green-man 2y ago
Yes, they do, it just takes longer to enact what was coordinated.
There's no fundamental difference between a conversation in a meadow and one online.
- jgwil2 2y agoSometimes quantity has a quality all of its own. The difference is in the number of people who can be involved and the distances that can be conquered, but those differences completely change the possibilities of online speech.
- big-green-man 2y agoBut there's nothing fundamental about that distinction that warrants a separate set of societal rules. It's just scale: more people, farther distance, shorter time frames.
- janderland 2y agoThis is not true. We’ve all observed how differently people behave online. The anonymity aspect creates different social outcomes. While there are arguments for preserving encryption, acting like online communication is the same as face to face is disingenuous.
- big-green-man 2y agoWe are talking specifically with regard to private communication between people, not speaker's corner online, that's a separate discussion, although I'd have similar views on that topic as well. It's not the same. But it's not fundamentally different, it's just the technology makes it such that meeting up with someone to talk, no matter where they are, is trivial. It's like a pulley.
- croes 2y agoThen where is the problem? Let‘s get rid of the online tools and go back to the meadows.
- big-green-man 2y agoI never said there was a problem with anything.