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> as romantic as it may sound to some to sit in the comfort of your desk chair and bring about digital justice. Isn't this romantic notion, bringing justice wi
by sdoering 14y ago
> as romantic as it may sound to some to sit in the comfort of your desk chair and bring about digital justice.
Isn't this romantic notion, bringing justice with a click the driving force of nearly every online-petition, and things like this.
Isn't this romantic notion the reason why the new demo is so often practiced? New demo = to ddos someone to mars or jupiter, and rationalize it with: I could just as easily have gone to their headquarter and demoed there?
Well most people could not have done it - and would not have done it in rain, snow, wind, driven 500 miles just to demo there, and so on.
As a lot of psychological studies showed, people saying they would do something and people doing this thing in the real world (not in their imagination) are two totally different things.
So there you have your real, underlying problem, a psychological problem, with this kind of digital activism. It is so totally different from real activism, and at the same time so new, that we really do not have proper ways as a society to deal with the dark sides of it.
- Klinky 14y agoOne or a few people defacing or denying a target's digital presence gets everyone's attention. One or a few people picketing outside of the target's physical presence doesn't get any attention. The ability for one person to have that much power is either scary or empowering depending on your point of view.
- tripzilch 14y agoYou mean "both". And/or, it's definitely not an either/or thing.
- Klinky 14y agoI should have qualified it with "of the actions taken, and the targets background", but yeah I guess I could have said "both". I didn't like how cliche "both scary and empowering at the same time" sounded. Additionally, it seems some people have a hard time realizing they have polarized views of the same thing in their head. So while it may be both scary and empowering, people can have strong polarized views of the same topic without realizing it, it just depends on their point of view at the time. Maybe I was trying to get people to think and realize that such things exist in their mind, or maybe I am giving myself too much credit for an omission of words.