“It's Not Cancel Culture – It's a Platform Failure.”
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“It's Not Cancel Culture – It's a Platform Failure.”
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#2In her case it was not cancel culture seeking her out to ruin her life. Assumedly no one doxxed her, sent death threats, or attempted to get her fired from her job and made a pariah so she can never support herself again. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
In before it's just holding people accountable. If you want to go that route there was no red scare. Joe McCarthy was just holding people accountable.
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#3I deleted my Twitter and I feel great after doing so. I believe Twitter is a platform where San Francisco exports its social problems to the rest of the world. The result is riots, chaos and hate.
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#4I deleted my Twitter and I feel great after doing so. I believe Twitter is a platform where San Francisco exports its social problems to the rest of the world. The result is riots, chaos and hate.
^ oops. I gave a bad opinion. :p
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#5This phenomenon is hardly unique to Twitter or social media. It happens all the time in schools. The local town newspaper could set off these sorts of things too (or national media).
I suspect it could happen in any case where there is widespread (relative to audience) information discovery of something and people who are all too happy to be mad at people.
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#6I deleted my Twitter and I feel great after doing so. I believe Twitter is a platform where San Francisco exports its social problems to the rest of the world. The result is riots, chaos and hate.
There's still going to be riots, chaos, and hate regardless of if we have Twitter or not; the internet or not. Most revolutions throughout history have been accomplished via riots and wars have been fought over hate.
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#7Implicitly, this piece is making an argument for a return to gate keepers/taste makers of yore. I'm not sure that's better. For better or worse, would the BLM movement have the power and reach it does today if it were filtered through establishment news sources?
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#8I deleted my Twitter and I feel great after doing so. I believe Twitter is a platform where San Francisco exports its social problems to the rest of the world. The result is riots, chaos and hate.
Twitter is the worst of the social media. Messages that are at most 280 characters without any context are bound to be misinterpreted. If you're on it long enough, it starts to feel like the world is random, crazy and spinning out of control. For me, it was the easiest one to delete.
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#9I think the issue here is human socialization and not twitter or technology. People love to play the "did you see what so-and-so said?" game in all its variants, and as far as I can tell this has been true for millenia. It has nothing to do with a trending topics feature
I feel like there are many articles and books that attribute basic elements of human interaction to whatever platform the author was using to observe them. Technology does enable new ways to relate and creates some unique situations. But the basic beats of these social phenomena are the same as they have been for a very long time
Re: “It's Not Cancel Culture – It's a Platform Failure.”
#10Implicitly, this piece is making an argument for a return to gate keepers/taste makers of yore. I'm not sure that's better. For better or worse, would the BLM movement have the power and reach it does today if it were filtered through establishment news sources?
It was filtered through establishment news sources.