On the manifestos killers leave behind

Re:On the manifestos killers leave behind by nickysielicki on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @03:51PM (#10388968)

I link to this far too often, but it's relevant to so many discussions had on this site.

    The Great On-Line Equalizer
    Date: 21 Mar 1996
    https://subgenius.com/bigfist/answers/articles2/X0095_The_Great_On-Line_Eq.html

    Relevant quote:
    """
    All the people who are invisible in the normal world (the world
    run by the rich and powerful), all those people you can dismiss
    on the street as powerless and harmless -- ALL THOSE PEOPLE are
    now in your face.
  
    You can feel their hot breath on the Internet.
    """

It seems the more we become intertwined with the Internet, the more we start feeling their hot breath in real life. Or at least, the more we notice it.

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Re:On the manifestos killers leave behind by 0x49 on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:06PM (#10389068)

This quote has a lot of truth to it. I think the issue we now face is that it gives EVERYBODY power. Even people that shouldn't ever have it in the first place.

Many of these hashtag protests are purely based on emotion and in some instances, don't even have enough information to make a claim either way (or are based on rumor/false information). This is why our court systems were invented in the first place: to prevent mobs of people from attacking innocent individuals and calling it 'justice'.

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Re:On the manifestos killers leave behind by untog on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @03:55PM (#10388985)

I'm not sure how much that applies here. Killers with manifestos have always existed, it has little to do with the internet. They were always in people's faces because, well, they killed people and left manifestos.

Where the internet does come into its own is allowing these disturbed people to find other like-minded (like-disturbed?) people, and feed off each other's misery, perhaps making them more likely to kill.

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