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In this situation the person sending unsolicited videos more aptly fits, but I think you could argue it's both. Being connected to social media in some sense is
by everdrive 1y ago
In this situation the person sending unsolicited videos more aptly fits, but I think you could argue it's both. Being connected to social media in some sense is a refusal to just sit alone in your room. And when bad things happen to you on social media -- even when blame should strictly be assigned to the people actually taking the action -- there's a sense in which you have failed to "sit quietly in a room alone."
People definitely read the parent comment as blaming Williams' daughter for the actions of others. I agree that the blame rests with the people actually sending the videos, but I think there's another reading of the parent comment: why do we subject ourselves to this? Why don't we just walk away, when it would be very easy to do so? I'm never going to be able to stop the flood of assholes online, and no one commenting on this thread will ever be able to stop it either. What's in my control is whether or not I engage in that system.