Ten years ago, the consensus held that eventually everyone would give each other a pass for old Tweets/Facebook posts. That, uh, very much hasn’t happened. Why? (This piece doesn’t have all the answers but gets at something I’ve been thinking about a lot.)https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/technology/emily-wilder-firing-ap.html …
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Replying to @mckaycoppins
Yeah. People from the social sciences side of this were usually jaw-on-floor on this hypothesis that such things would cease to matter (David Brin had a book claiming this would happen, and I used to teach it). Better question is how did people ever think this as plausible?
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Replying to @zeynep @mckaycoppins
I just encountered some slides of mine from a talk in 2008! The points there are basic and obvious. But they were basic and obvious in 2008. "People will remain people" is a pretty strong hypothesis that gets you far.
https://ebiquity.umbc.edu/_file_directory_/resources/247.ppt …pic.twitter.com/MRoEkbWEpq
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