Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Jeff
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Jan 29 2022 12:44:47

  Re: Re: Computer Kits
  By: Jeff to boraxman on Fri Jan 28 2022 09:31 am

 > If someone fails to get a job because something racist they said on social
 > media surfaces, I think the question needs to be "why are they posting racis
 > things on social media" and not "is social media harmful because it preserve
 > this racist thing that this person said?"
 > 

I think that is not as much the problem. Nasty things are usually removed from
social media. I d argue some things that are not nasty are removed too as they
suit them.

The problem comes when some moron shows up and reconstructs something you said
3 years ago, casts it under a bad light, and gathers a lynch mob.

The prime examples would be people in the RPG hobby who mention that they don t
want corebooks to deal with politics or sexual subjects because the books are
not the place for doing it. The standard response to that is for a mob to build
up and attempt to destroy that person s online presence because he is obviously
a Nazi (because only Nazies want their RPG books to be politics-free).

In the RPG world, one s digital presence might be 75% of his professional
presence. So you can see the problem here.

Obviously then you can say "He should be self-moderating". But the issue I have
with this is that what you mean is some opinions should not be voiced at all
and that you are ok with it.

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