Come on, you guys are way more powerful and influential than you were 20 years ago (which is exciting!) What’s that Spiderman line? With great power, comes great responsibility? Words matter. They travel farther & faster than they did a decade ago. We should exercise care.
Yeah it’s not a direct response. Just an interesting side thread.
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Anyway, PG is arguing that there are more taboos. But maybe now that PG has 1M followers, it is statistically just more likely that for any given thing he says, 2-10 people out of those 1M people might be bothered enough to complain about it and/or trigger a mob.
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Yea that makes. So, as with with most things post internet, more people are increasingly exposed to different ideas that they never thought existed. Which triggers a mob. That could make the recipient of the outage think taboos are on the rise. Media stories amplify this.
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Do you agree it is getting difficult to talk abt such topics without others assuming ill intent and calling names? Which is what I believe PG is referring to with his taboo comment. You could argue that it’s just a consequence of too many now getting exposed to these ideas online
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Or that just being a natural consequence of so many people getting exposed to each other in a massive, instantaneous game of Telephone.
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