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Re:India: Google engineer latest victim of mob lynchings fue... by jopsen on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:03AM (#17534868)
Similarly, one could ask if this is something new? Or have WhatsApp merely replaced another media platform.
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Re:India: Google engineer latest victim of mob lynchings fue... by fooker on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:06AM (#17534885)
It has replaced SMS. These issues have existed for a while.
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Re:India: Google engineer latest victim of mob lynchings fue... by inapis on Sunday July 15, 2018 @08:34AM (#17534978)
These issues have existed for a while. WhatsApp, unfortunately, accelerated the pace. Messaging a person or a group of persons earlier was expensive and required a lot of effort (selecting individual people to message and each message had a price) and there was no guarantee of message delivery or even timely delivery. WhatsApp made it free and almost instantaneous to inform a much larger set of people reliably.
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