"The fact is, it’s easy to moderate comment sections. It’s easy to remove spam, bots, racial slurs, low-effort trolls, and abuse. But once you remove all those things, you’re left with people honestly and civilly arguing for their opinions. And that’s the scariest thing of all."
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"It doesn’t matter if taboo material makes up 1% of your comment section; it will inevitably make up 100% of what people hear about your comment section and then of what people think is in your comment section. Finally, it will make up 100% of what people associate with you"
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I really don't think this is actually true. I think it can feel that way to someone who's hearing about it from aggressive assholes or worried friends, but consider that Coca-Cola literally funded death squads and yet it's barely ever mentioned.
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Replying to @sigfig @sonyaellenmann
It was installed sometime around the 80s
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this is the purpose zombie movies serve (the same as the court jester in older times): to cloak the real in a plausibly deniable costume so as to speak the unspeakable.
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Seriously, what kind of deep seeded paranoia feeds the popularity of stuff like that
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Replying to @ElamBend @drethelin and
my personal theory about the zombie boom is that it was because post 9/11 we weren't "allowed" to say that we feared Islam 1999: 3 2000: 6 2001: 7 2002: 5 2003: 12 2004: 20 2005: 23 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zombie_films …
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2/ What's the VERY FIRST visual in Dawn of the Dead (2004) ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTYNwwPQH4k …
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3/ Note that the reporting in the intro of the movie all comes from Jerusalem. Center of the Middle East. Flashpoint for Muslim extremism.
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