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Re:Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2... by a1369209993 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:16PM (#23743761)
Right now peoples twitter feeds are[0] 49% spam, 49% rage-bait, and 2% legitimate content. If that changes to[1] 99.98% spam, 0.02% rage-bait, and 8.16e-4% legitimate content, most people will probably stop using twitter, thus contributing to the goal of:

> to get rid of social media forever regardless of the other consequences

0: 103% of statistics on the internet are made up.

1: 2+49+245049.

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Re:Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2... by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:22AM (#23755971)
> Right now peoples twitter feeds are[0] 49% spam, 49% rage-bait, and 2% legitimate content. If that changes to[1] 99.98% spam, 0.02% rage-bait, and 8.16e-4% legitimate content, most people will probably stop using twitter

That's assuming the spammers can't figure out how to effectively troll the people who came for the rage bait into propagating their spam, but they can, because spammers are Turing-complete.

Obviously the people who came for the legitimate content will be destroyed. Or take up spamming.

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Re:Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2... by iratei on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:19PM (#23743769)
This is brilliant reply post. Upvoted, reblogged and flagged as spam. You win +1 internets today sir/ma'am.
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