Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet (2018)

Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet (2018) by aksss on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:40PM (#19312936)

>>an attempt to “self-investigate” claims that the restaurant’s basement was a dungeon full of kidnapped children. Comet Ping Pong does not have a basement.

Ah, but did you look for the secret passage under the prep station? The recent JRE episode with AJ was talking about how we have this mix of people on the Internet having fun with ideas, sometimes just to get a laugh, sometimes because they are just wondering out loud, and then this subpop of genuinely mentally disturbed people who take it all very literally and too seriously. That there's no filter between these groups is one of the dangers of the Internet, I guess.

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Re:Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet (2018) by tha_nose on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @03:52PM (#19314128)

How is that any different than the new yorker or traditional media spreading lies and hate about jussie smollet, covington or any other incident and causing mentally unstable people to attack others?

I find it strange how new yorker feels they should be allowed to be toxic but everyone else isn't. It's strange how they feel they aren't responsible for the mentally unstable they accidentally influence but everyone else is responsible.

Using that logic, every movie director, author, journalist, musician, etc would be liable for the actions of the mentally unstable. That would be the end of all media, including the new yorker.

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