Why we crave internet justice

Zababa wrote: post #2

https://archive.is/0sNA5 . Also, the title seems to be "Why we crave internet justice". The article itself doesn't have much substance.

The page title is "Roxane Gay: Why People Are So Awful Online" though.

Re: Why we crave internet justice

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Post by amelius » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

People are awful in cars too.

So the rule seems to be that people are awful when there is a piece of glass between them.

Re: Why we crave internet justice

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Post by __float » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #5

People are awful in cars too. So the rule seems to be that people are awful when there is a piece of glass between them.

Cars have a particular....lack of communication ability, compared to the internet.

Though a cute joke, I think there is something lost by reducing it to "people can be awful anywhere".

Re: Why we crave internet justice

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Post by Ambolia » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

Consensus building doesn't work without centralized mass media. People just have to get used to have different groups with different values inside the same country and be ok with that. Decentralized chains of trust will grow, which was the norm before mass media appeared.

Either that, or centralization will reassert itself brutally and force a new consensus.

Re: Why we crave internet justice

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Post by zsmi » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

ggoo wrote: post #3

They can be awful offline too.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

One interacts with so many more people online. So even if the same proportion of people are awful in both spaces, the odds of interacting with someone like that go up online.

Re: Why we crave internet justice

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Post by Zababa » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

seba_dos1 wrote: post #4

Zababa wrote: post #2

https://archive.is/0sNA5 . Also, the title seems to be "Why we crave internet justice". The article itself doesn't have much substance.

The page title is "Roxane Gay: Why People Are So Awful Online" though.

That's true. I was under the impression that the article title was more important, but I may very well be wrong.

Re: Why we crave internet justice

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Post by exo-pla-net » Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 5:28 PM UTC

This article doesn't tell you why people are awful online.

It hypothesizes that we respond to petty wrongdoers the same way we'd respond to war criminals, and that we further have been corrupted by exposure to too much bad news.