For years, people have been sounding the alarm about the increasing radicalization of this group, and their attempts to whip each other into committing acts of violence. Are you listening now?
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I’ve been to some dark places on the Internet in my time, but the shit coming out in the last couple of years is just… evil.
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It's bad enough to see what is oozing out of there, but so much worse when you lift up the rock and take a long, hard look.
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Back in the 90s the Internet seemed to be a shining road to enlightenment and education. We forgot that people are, well, people.
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Not everyone has had the luxury to 'forget'. Women and POC have been pushing back against this self-delusional techno-Utopianism all along, only to be ridiculed, dismissed and belittled.
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This vision of the internet as an unequivocal force for progress has always been a very privileged and limited perspective.
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By members of advanced Western economies, I would submit, not necessarily just white males. Women, POC and LGBTQ have the agency to be starry-eyed idealists as well.
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