Re:How White Nationalism Courts Internet Nerd Culture
by danharaj on Saturday November 25, 2017 @05:03PM
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There were white supremacists pushing holocaust denial on usenet. What actually happened is that the social places on the Internet suddenly stopped moderating themselves which let white supremacists congregate, organize and normalize.
Re:How White Nationalism Courts Internet Nerd Culture
by krapp on Saturday November 25, 2017 @05:59PM
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>I strongly believe that anyone who cares about the internet and its culture of free ideas will recognize it as a place where people can be judged based on their skills and the quality of their ideas rather than their race or gender, and will harshly judge anyone who attempts to exclude others based purely on such superficial metrics.
The internet doesn't have a culture.
It did once, but only because the pool of users was small, but as the internet became mainstream, "internet culture" became a reflection of humanity in general. That's not a corruption of anything, it's just the maturity of the platform.
I strongly believe that anyone who cares about the internet and its culture of free ideas will recognize it as a place where people can be judged based on their skills and the quality of their ideas rather than their race or gender, and will harshly judge anyone who attempts to exclude others based purely on such superficial metrics.