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Remember when we liked the Internet? Longing for a world without trolls, tracking and Twitter roundups
We used to go online to feel understood. A new film gets what's lost in the move from LiveJournal to "social media". “The Sisterhood of Night,” currently available on Netflix and most other streaming platforms, is based on a 1998 story by Steven Millhauser, collected in “The Knife Thrower and Other Stories“–worth tracking down if you can find it.
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The Internet is like everything else. When you get enough people involved, they won't all jibe. You have your shit-starters, your aggro-activists, your survivalists, religious zealots...you tell all these people they have to exist in the same space and you will have threats, harassment, petitions, police reports....
And then they leave onto the next thing, and we do a full circle.
I really wanted to like this article, and it was good until the author needlessly dragged gamergate into it. I've read a lot of Salon in the past year or so and it seems that they more and more have has some serious circlejerk issues that they need to get over. It really causes them to lose major credibility when everything turns into an op-ed for the editor's personal crusades.