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bamboozledyesterday at 6:34 PM4 repliesview on HN

What major revolutions or important political shifts have occurred from people anonymously shitposting on Reddit or Facebook ?


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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 6:56 PM

None. Almost by definition, the folks who satisfy themselves waxing online drive complacency away from real action. That doesn’t, however, mean they aren’t self-importantly organized to later support an organized movement.

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thijsontoday at 12:21 AM

I know of one crowd sourced witch hunt on reddit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Sunil_Tripathi

A lot of the cancel culture is also crowd sourced on platforms like these.

bluescrnyesterday at 6:51 PM

The online right talk about 'the great meme war' that led to the 2016 election of Trump.

Seems pretty clear that social media is radicalising people at both ends of the political spectrum, and it's not surprising that governments would want to restrict/police it by trying to criminalise 'hate'/'misinformation' and taking away the shield of anonymity.

direwolf20yesterday at 6:51 PM

Donald Trump?