Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
by intended on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @02:57AM
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This theory has long since met with reality and lost.
I mod - and it turns out that trolls target groups of people.
So for example seeing a bunch of posts targetting women, or minorities, is going to go ahead and affect people who have been abused for being parts of those groups.
Indiscriminate massed assaults are extremely hard for people to deal with - and even if I am not the target I would expect myself to step in, or some authority to step in.
So yes, in a very real way they have power over a large number of people, just the same way you have power over someone weaker or more vulnerable than you.
The old chan philosophy worked on a smaller net, if it even worked then.
It would be more exhausting to put up with a system of censorship.
There will always be people around you that say or do things that you do not appreciate. Getting offended at them is something you do to them, not the other way around.
The more we act like people have power over us, the more power we give them.