"Protecting diverse communication is the essence of free speech, and at the very least this announcement acknowledges that free speech is compromised when the loudest, grossest assholes get to set the tone," Whitney Phillips, a researcher at Humboldt State University who studies online trolling told me.
a researcher at Humboldt State University who studies online trolling
That is the craziest thing that I don't know why I'm surprised exists. It's true though. The internet is an anthropological, sociological, and psychological gold mine. We've seen an extremely broad and strong culture that has developed in a couple decades. It's actually really fascinating. And this entire reddit debacle has really shown it. Social codes that many people on reddit believed inherent were broken and there are others who are reacting and trying to remove these social codes. And these are online protests that really happen in the same way that it happens in real life, but this time with virtual entities. The internet is what happens when brains interact but don't have the actual have the actual physical world to change how things interact.
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That is the craziest thing that I don't know why I'm surprised exists. It's true though. The internet is an anthropological, sociological, and psychological gold mine. We've seen an extremely broad and strong culture that has developed in a couple decades. It's actually really fascinating. And this entire reddit debacle has really shown it. Social codes that many people on reddit believed inherent were broken and there are others who are reacting and trying to remove these social codes. And these are online protests that really happen in the same way that it happens in real life, but this time with virtual entities. The internet is what happens when brains interact but don't have the actual have the actual physical world to change how things interact.