It’s curious that humanities/social science evangelists like to lecture technologists that “just because you can doesn’t mean you should,” but see no problem with cultivating online mobs just because they can. Something they’re admittedly far better at than techies.
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Truce proposal:
Techies sign on to: Just because we can make up Demon Algorithms doesn’t mean we should.
NonTechies sign on to: Just because we can whip up frenzied online mobs by muttering esoteric-ideology Demon Mob raising spells doesn’t mean we should.
