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a thing that fascinates me these days is everyone agrees that social media instantaneous & global amplification is bad and we're unprepared for it but the takeaways on what the worst things are range widely. this isn't a dunk i think it's a sign of healthy discussionhttps://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1270097851457007616 …
this line stands out to me — i (& most studies) would say the internet has directly enabled the proliferation of extreme/socially unacceptable views & actions. but if you're more concerned with mobs on the timescale of days (which i disagree is more important) this doesn't matterpic.twitter.com/Rlsd30LuEZ
i also think it's disingenuous to conflate misinformation mobs (eg doxxings from misidentifications) with "cancellation mobs" that usually act on ideas already integrated into the social consensus. lots of certain types of ppl love to do this & imo it's intellectually dishonest
i do wish more ppl esp on the "cancel culture is bad" side of things would write stuff like this that is pretty well thought out and shows a depth of thinking that is at least available to disagree with in an adult manner. instead of just like "boohoo my haters" lol
agree the internet has catalyzed a lot of dangerous extremism, and that's a problem. it's just separate from my central point, which is i think we're at legitimate ex-risk of total, instant global action on something both enraging and wrong.
in the piece you highlighted i'm trying to argue the specific nature of hysteria at global scale will be very hard (impossible?) to predict, so you can't really censor for it. the ex-risk is rapid onset madness we can't imagine, not specific ideas we mostly all hate.
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