Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)
I wrote about this here:<p><a href="https://austingwalters.com/on-committing-suicide/" rel="nofollow">https://austingwalters.com/on-committing-suicide/</a><p>Social media is effectively amplifying the smallest segment of society. An extreme left and extreme right, neither of whom really represent the vast majority of people. Worse, I don’t think companies or representatives realize how few even a few thousand retweets really are...<p>Further exasperating the issue is the fact we deplatform people with opposing opinions. Now Reddit is even removing people who upvote stories or comments differ from their ideology.<p>It’s getting real scary. That’s why my post linked above is called “on committing suicide”. It’s a dual meaning, I think the country is murdering itself and I’m also risking my entire career to say so.