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There are good reasons to not throw out "seeking tips on this chick" tweets to randoms, one of which being that the world inevitably contains more crazies & liars than people who know anything. Most frightening: it's now a free-to-use tool of intimidation against private citizens
People don't understand how to determine who is or isn't a "public figure" anymore, a descriptor that used to almost always come with resources for maintaining *some* privacy & managing harassment. It's VERY scary to be targeted this way when you don't necessarily have that
The best most of us can do is just keep our eyes on the ball in the broader game & try to track these rapid cascades of change rippling through broader social norms & institutions, while understanding that as a population, we are wholly unprepared to adapt to the madness
Revolt of the Public remains the best extant manual for the meta game. I strongly recommend ithttps://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143/ …
We are all at great risk of losing some portion of our humanity here, myself included. Very negative shaping forces have developed on the obvious layers *and* via much more subtle & pernicious mechanisms. Keep the principles of charity & empathy close or you will likely lose them
All the more reason to tweet anonymously.
On the individual level, definitely. The net result, though, is a society with no real capacity for argument, where people are afraid to even try to find fellow dissenters. People who are first or second gen products of former communist regimes are familiar with this
I think people have entirely rejected the idea that “public figure” is a category with moral significance. Politics on social media is increasingly conducted as a great bush war, or partisan campaign, in which any instance of the enemy is held fair game as an aspect of the whole.
Jesus.... Hope Riva is OK
Don't you feel like some of this is fixed by closing your network somewhat? Or at best this would be the determination at what a "public figure" is no?
By "closing your network" I mean "your tweets are protected" in this sense.
The dude is a creep.
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