Re:Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems fro...
by brudgers on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:49PM
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An even larger number proportion is people being assholes because they can…just like offline bad behavior.
Mental illness reduces culpability.
Attributing most bad behavior to mental illness excuses it. It treats Twitter trolls as if they have no agenda.
But Twitter is what we celebrated in the Arab Spring. An effective propaganda platform. That’s how trolls use it…to promote ideologies. That’s why the article leads with LGBT hotness; to define the victim perpetrator roles.
Mental illness reduces culpability.
Attributing most bad behavior to mental illness excuses it. It treats Twitter trolls as if they have no agenda.
But Twitter is what we celebrated in the Arab Spring. An effective propaganda platform. That’s how trolls use it…to promote ideologies. That’s why the article leads with LGBT hotness; to define the victim perpetrator roles.