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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by eropple on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:14AM (#23832875)
Anonymity wasn't why the 4chan hate machine would fire up--it was because a few people could look like a lot of people. It looked like you had a mob right at hand.

Now, there are a lot of people, and bots besides.

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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by falsaberN1 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:43AM (#23833265)
Hmm, that's an interesting take. I always thought it was the "I can say whatever and they'll never know it was me, mwahaha the perfect crimeeee!" or something.
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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by eropple on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:36PM (#23836691)
People have never had a problem with their names on atrocities when they had other people at their back.

The Salem witch trials are an obvious example, to me.

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