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Comment by Joeboy | Hacker News Reader

Maybe there's something to that, but I think the main thing that happened was that we developed incredible new technology that allowed all of humanity to communicate openly in real time on an equal footing without gatekeepers or censorship. Then we looked at it and decided we didn't like it.

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>Then we looked at it and decided we didn't like it.

People were given the ability to seek out an unlimited reservoir of offensive content and decided they like it.

They like being outraged, They like feeling the martyr, They like to hate.

The overwhelming majority of offensive content is sought out and distributed by the offended.

Im sure there are detailed biological and social descriptions of why, but at the end of day, it is because people want to be offended.

It is quite a sad state of affairs.

I really liked it. I think people have already forgotten how it was without these things. It was also predicted for years that small mindedness will become an enemy to such advancements.

You're posting this on a heavily moderated forum with multiple censoring methods.

Yes, but HN “works” because it is a small-ish community with principled moderators and generally well-educated people. The community guidelines request that commenters assume the best intentions in others. I’ve been in enough heavily-censored forums, groups, and websites to say that too much moderation can be worse than too little.

Which you're telling me because....?

Who exactly is "we"?

"People".

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