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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by zozbot234 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:17AM (#23830238)
> In many contexts, having identity tied to your online profile should make people act more like humans

That's the point, isn't it? A person can be good or bad, but when you group people together via social media, you find out just how many of them are just terrible human beings. People acting like humans is exactly what you don't want to happen.

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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by PedroBatista on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:27AM (#23830295)
So.. you want people to act like robots?

The psychologists and drug companies would love that.

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