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Why Did BuzzFeed & Co. Target Justine Sacco for Online Assassination
Maybe BuzzFeed and its sorry band of elite media minions chose Sacco to send an intimidating message that says no one is safe from their speech rules, even nobodies with 174 Twitter followers. Randomly pulling people from their online homes as an example to the rest of us, is certainly going to have a chilling effect. But maybe it was a targeted hit based on a personal grudge or agenda we will never know about.
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I don't understand. Words have consequences when you say them publicly.
Especially in the social media age, where within one second it's across the world.
She's the daughter of a billionaire and she's joking about how she's going to Africa but won't get AIDS because she's white. People generally don't like it when someone who has had a relatively easy life uses the misfortune of others as the butt of her jokes. So her life just got a little harder... poor thing. At least she doesn't have AIDS.