Re:How do I draw a pair of buttocks?
by thomassmith65 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:56PM
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I think actually the pivotal moment was the Charlottesville rally in late 2017.
The way I recall the key events:
• 2008~ – The rise of smart phones and social media floods the internet with less sophisticated (for lack of a better word) people.
• 2011 – 'Occupy Wall St' kicks off a wave of internet populism and paranoia.
• 2015~ – Europe's migrant crisis and a wave of terrorism (ie: Bataclan massacre) inflames the populist anger, making it nastier and uglier.
At this point, social media platforms start to resemble 4chan, but the prevailing attitude in techis still, almost universally, that sunlight is the best disinfectant.
• 2016 – Brexit vote, Trump election. I speculate that people around this time began to question the wisdom of too much freedom on the internet.
• 2017 – Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally. There was an explosion of online discussion after the rally where many people defected from online free-speech absolutism.
Since Charlottesville, many online services began to adopt stricter moderation.
The way I recall the key events:
• 2008~ – The rise of smart phones and social media floods the internet with less sophisticated (for lack of a better word) people.
• 2011 – 'Occupy Wall St' kicks off a wave of internet populism and paranoia.
• 2015~ – Europe's migrant crisis and a wave of terrorism (ie: Bataclan massacre) inflames the populist anger, making it nastier and uglier.
At this point, social media platforms start to resemble 4chan, but the prevailing attitude in techis still, almost universally, that sunlight is the best disinfectant.
• 2016 – Brexit vote, Trump election. I speculate that people around this time began to question the wisdom of too much freedom on the internet.
• 2017 – Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally. There was an explosion of online discussion after the rally where many people defected from online free-speech absolutism.
Since Charlottesville, many online services began to adopt stricter moderation.